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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: "Resolved, that the Government should build and supervise large irrigation works in the West...
DEBATE OF DECEMBER 12, 1888.Question: "Resolved, That the government should build and supervise large irrigation works in the West...
...permission to build a rowing tank in the old gymnasium, which the rowing authorities have been so long working for. has at last been granted. The executive committee is pushing the work as fast as it is possible. Building plans are being prepared and masons have already given estimates of the cost of the stone-work. Although everything will be done to hasten the completion of the tank, on account of the great changes which the old gymnasium will have to undergo, it will necessarily be some time before the crew can commence working regularly in it. It is hoped...
...part of the apparatus which will be carried to Peru is a light portable frame building of one story with a ground area of three hundred square feet, which is to be the observatory of the party; the scarcity of wood and carpenters in Peru makes it prudent to build this here. The class of work which the expedition will undertake comes under the terms of the Boyden bequest. The cost of the work upon the Stella spectra is sustained by the Draper Memorial Fund...
...conceded by boating authorities that a tank is indispensable for the success of our crew. The announcement, therefore, that efforts are being made to build a tank here, similar to the one used by the candidates for the Yale crew during the past two years, will doubtless be hailed with satisfaction throughout the college. Permission to build a tank in Hemenway gymnasium has been refused, but there is no reason why one cannot be constructed in the old gymnasium on the delta opposite Memorial Hall. The building is now useless, except as a storehouse for all sorts of rubbish...