Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive: $25,000,000) and Maryland are the three largest ships in the Navy (each 32,600 tons). Behind these in single file would come the 15 other battleships...
Tradition is about to be violated on the opposite side of Holyoke Street, where Dunster House and the old Advocate House are to come down, sacrificed on the altar of the tutoring schools. The Manter Hall School, successor to "Widow" Nolen, is to build a new home on will return to the new building, while The Advocate and the Dramatic Club, or phans of the storm, have already moved to Didgely Annex, in the rear of Ridgely Hall...
...limit of from 100 to 200 students is reached within the next week and sufficient interest in the new plan is displayed by the undergraduate body, the University may build a new dinning hall feel next year, centrally located for the upper-class dormitories. The probable site for this building will be on Mt. Auburn Street...
...Chicago Y. M. C. A. hotel, $50,000 for the Smith College development fund, and $50,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. He: gave considerable time to improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate his name in worthy fashion, he gave $3,000,000 to build, an aquarium in Chicago, for which he sent a commission to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity at Berlin, lighting in London. The Shedd Aquarium, now under construction, will contain 131 exhibition tanks with some of the rarest fish in the world...
This year there are only two veterans back. Captain Rawlins and P. M. Lenhart '27 whereon to build a team to succeed last season's national champions. Eight positions on Team A and Team B will be filled by new men. Harvard has won two National Squash championships and three state titles in the last three years. To uphold this record will be the objective of Captain Rawlins' team...