Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...house of the Harvard Shooting Club is nearly ready for occupancy now, needing but a few alterations to make it entirely satisfactory. It is situated on the land owned by the college on the Allston marsh, well over towards Barry's corner. The building itself is twenty feet by twelve with a place in front for store and shelf for a scorer. In the front of the house, which faces the river, there is a large sliding window six feet across. In front of the house and running the whole length is a platform eight feet wide, from the front...
...were in no mood for trifling and were resolved that there should be some reparation on the part of the South for the blood-shed and money spent. Garfield's speech delivered in congress in 1866 in which he advocated the clearing away the "rubbish" of the South and build up the country on a firm foundation voiced the sentiments of the majority of the Northerners...
...locker. The undergraduates ought to take hold and make the thing a success. If two hundred and fifty or three hundred persons join the club it can be run easily and kept in good condition. There are flye four oars of exactly the same build which can be used for races, also a number of singles, pair-oars, and other boats. There ought to be plenty of races and much practice on the river. An experienced boat-builder will be employed as janitor to keep the boats in order. The boat house is to be ran as a club...
...only presumable object of such a subsidy would be (a) to restore by temporary encouragement the prosperity of American shipping. (b) to build up a prosperous trade with South and Central America; (c) to create a class of vessels available for war purposes-Majority report of Joint Select Committee of Congress on American shipping, House reports. 2n session, 47th Congress, vol. 1; Proceedings of the Pan-American Congress; Lalor's Encyclopaedia...
...truth in a new light. The electricity paper is really not alarming, as the chief danger seems to be from human carelessness and not electrical viciousness. The Paris exhibition paper is clever and brilliant, but somewhat too picturesque, as when we are pictured a woman of "pony build and fruity complextion, and aquiline features with sharp spirited curves." The impression resulting from such a description is more picturesque than definite...