Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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More than half the money necessary to build Yale's proposed new gymnasium has already been subscribed. At the last meeting of the committee of the alumni, held in New York, Wednesday, the general plans prepared for the new gymnasium were approved. Slight changes necessary for the accommodation of a rowing tank were made, but in the main Professor Richard's designs will be strictly carried out. President Dwight, in behalf of the corporation, has promised a suitable side for the building near the college square...
...syndicate has purchased 1,000,000 feet of land near the Back Bay park to provide grounds for an open air athletic association. The syndicate intends to build a half-mile bicycle track, a grand stand and base-ball grounds, tennis courts, and everything requisite for all kinds of athletic sports...
...absence of a comfortable reading-room and of safe means of lighting the present reading-room artificially. The need of such a reading room- spacious, well ventilated, well lighted, and open up to 10 p. m.- he says, is very urgent, and the best plan is to build a large room at the north-east corner of Weld Hall, at a very short distance from Gore Hall, so as not to darken the delivery room and the present reading-room, which is to be converted into a large stack, able to contain about 500,000 volumes. The new reading-room...
...very meagre accommodations for laboratory work. Three members of the class of '77 have during the last seven years been appointed professors in different branches of biology, and the class naturally took a great deal of interest in the welfare of this department. The members therefore decided to build a laboratory and give it to their alma mater...
...this course in electrical engineering; they are solely courses in a workshop, and to make them practicable a small workshop has been fitted up. However, as quite a number of men have signified their intention of taking a course or two in the workshop, it will be necessary to build a large workshop very soon. The present workshop of the physical laboratory is excellent in its kind. It is fitted up with very fine instruments and tools, but is open only to those who have had some experience in handling fine instruments. It is therefore useless for the course...