Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started way back around 1875 when groups of Princeton undergraduates held "joyous free for alls" to build up class spirit. Somehow the idea evolved of a cane that was to be the prize of the Sophomore-Freshman struggles and by 1877 the University was sanctioning the affairs...
Weld hinted that the Council may well undertake a large-scale campaign among the national body of Harvard Alumni to build up support favoring the idea of a Student Activities Center and opposing the expenditure of $200,000 for a plaque in Memorial Church together will $500,000 for scholarships...
They were given 3,500,000 arid, mesa-studded acres in Arizona and New Mexico; a reservation which was gradually expanded until it was almost three times the size of Massachusetts. The tribe grew from 8,000 to 56,000 people. They had been encouraged to build a rude economy on sheep-raising; as the years passed, they accumulated flocks totaling over a million animals. There was mutton to eat and wool to weave, and silver jewelry for the wrists of their women...
...both the College and the Commonwealth found themselves in straitened financial circumstances, no attempt was made to build a new edifice on the site until the General Court authorized a state-wide lottery in 1794 to raise money for the building. Started in 1804, the new Stoughton Hall was completed a year later, and officially named in 1806. It watched the years flow by gracefully, housing Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, until the night of December 15, 1870, when its prim, Puritan peace was disturbed by the explosion of a bomb under the floor of Room...
...horror now that the tide of blood had washed back, naturally cast the evidence in the familiar and dreadful form of The Trial. The world, with one war still red under its nails and another beating in its belly, knew, more or less subconsciously, that it would have to build a prisoner's dock bigger than the subcontinent of India, that the crime was not contained by geography, and that the less the crime was understood the more it would infect the whole of humanity...