Word: built
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coast was clear, than a part of the Juniors in Architecture, M. I. T. (so says the Spectrum) come to Cambridge to view the architectural splendors which beautify our Yard. They noticed, in University, "the lower flights of stairs, the steps of the second run of which are built into the wall about two feet, and project therefrom about five, without any support at the outer end." The Spectrum doubtless makes this remark in all kindness, but we confess to a self-reproachful twinge. Have we not mounted that "run" thousands of times, and never thought about their projection...
...present Museum. Agassiz's untiring efforts to carry out his plan forced from the public an acknowledgment of the worth of that plan, and while others gave with a liberal hand, his own gift, his time and genius, was the one without which the Museum would never have been built. He lived to see his wishes consummated and to feel a just pride in knowing that no place could be found in Europe which afforded better facilities for gaining a knowledge of the animal kingdom than the institution of which he was the founder. Here he had brought together...
...Cuba! We write a letter home, enclosing will. Freshman gets his head shaved, and despatches by express eleven locks of hair (his hair). Embark on blockade-runner. Presented with cutlasses and sworn in. Bearded patriot shows us over our seaworthy craft for two reis. A stanch Clyde-built steamer, English bottom, long, low, rakish hull, B. No. 3. Interrupted by pistol-boom from quarter-deck, we weigh anchor (4000 lbs., more or less). We lend a hand, which is blistered. Observe mysterious stranger sorting papers in the shadow of a warehouse. Freshman fires, does not drop...
...science too much care cannot be taken upon this point, since the confidence of the small farmers in their leaders would be annihilated and the experiment fail disgracefully, if there should be very soon a great embezzlement. For the sale of products the preparations have been immense, - elevators built in the large cities of the West, terms made with retail dealers and shipping firms, resistance organized to the monopoly of the combined railroads...
...release from so much restraint are soon felt. Sociability leads to occasional smoking, which is again well, or, at least, not very ill. But sociability and smoking tend to introduce beer, and upon the foundations of this trio, all harmless in themselves, a very pretty character may be built - or destroyed. So with theatre-going - a profitable recreation; but the unfortunate predilection of modern society for the spectacular (a word intimately associated with blond wigs and pink tights) exists even in Cambridge. Sometimes, alas! sic itur ad astra, - which are hardly to be considered heavenly bodies...