Word: buildings
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...amount which they think it desirable for the Union to spend, and then have tried to bring the income to that figure regardless of other matters. Their idea is that expense should determine income, not that income should determine expense. In other words, these kindly Procrusteans propose to build a bedstead of ample size, and then to secure a fit by stretching out their prospective lodgers. If the lodgers were all to be tall men, this idea might be very good, but it is scant wisdom where accomodations are professedly designed for all, and when at least half...
...occupy our thoughts. We should be real in dealing with our doubts; inconclusive thinking leads to agnosticism. We should be men of reality in dealing with our temptations; temptation is not sin, but it is sin to yield. Finally, we should be men of reality in our efforts to build up character and faith and to extend Christianity...
...Council of Cornell University has appealed to the Cornell Alumni for money to be devoted to permanent improvents in the athletic equipment. The undergraduates can raise the money for current expenses in athletics, but in addition, $6500 in needed to complete Percy Field for permanent use, and $2000 to build wings to the present boat house, to accommodate the class crews...
Columbia will build a club house for the students of the university near Broadway and 116th St. The house will contain a large meeting room, a reception room and college society rooms on the ground floor. On the second floor will be study and reading rooms and a reception room; a reference library, a large hall and an archive room will occupy the rest of the building...
...handed down to us by our forefathers. This age was an early phase of modern civilization and in all respects was far more advanced than the period of the Greek Middle Ages, 1000-700 B. C. which came immediately after it. The Mycenaeans themselves had a long past to build upon and may therefore be called the Ancients of Antiquity, since like our own more modern Ancients of Greece and Rome, they represent the culmination of a long continued upward trend in the affairs of men. Of the Mycenaean art, eminent writers say that through its genius for vivacity...