Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...geological causes have a great influence on the action of man himself. Why, for example, did the Pilgrims place their settlement and their college in so flat and uninteresting a spot as Cambridge? Simply because elsewhere the land was so covered with glacial stones that the farmers had to build walls to get rid of them. In a similar manner, the geological formation of Massachusetts Bay made possible the fisheries which made our forefathers a sea-faring race...
...Princeton Athletic Association is planning to build a number of permanent grand stands to accommodate the crowds at the large games. It is hoped that the work will be completed in time for the Cornell and Yale games...
...gift to Mr. James Stillman of New York. The contract has been awarded to Norcross Brothers, and the work of digging the foundations has already begun. The site now being built upon is a different piece of property from the land originally chosen. It was planned at first to build the Infirmary on Mt. Auburn street, between the Old People's Home and the Cambridge Hospital. Recently however, an arrangement has been made with the Cambridge Hospital by which the land was exchanged for a lot on Mt. Auburn street, to the east of the present Hospital buildings a sits...
...will of Mr. Augustus Van Wickle, a graduate of Brown University, twenty five thousand dollars was bequeathed to build gateways on the Princeton campus in honor of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, who gave the ground on which the college was originally built. Another important gift is the Charles Ewing Green Memorial Alcove in the Chancellor Green Library. The photographs of the University Library have been chosen by the American Library Association to form part of the collection at the Paris Exposition, exhibiting the most thoroughly equipped libraries in America...
...building of the new boat house, which was destroyed by fire at Christmas, will be begun in about a week. It was intended to re-build with brick, and the New York graduates, the donors, subscribed $8000 for this purpose. This sum was not considered sufficient, however, so that it has now been decided to build a wooden structure and the additional sum will not be used. The building will be in all respects similar to the one that was burned except that it will not be so high. The new launch, which is to replace the Frank Thompson...