Word: built
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inches per year, while 23 inches are necessary for profitable agriculture. The snow in the mountains, however, fills the streams and brooks, and although a great deal of the water is wasted, a large amount of it is used to great advantage by irrigation. Reservoirs are being built in case these streams dry up, and thus millions and millions of acres are being reclaimed...
...raised directly from the students by subscription. This collection of the subscriptions will be the principal duty of the finance committee and it will be necessary for them to have the $1,500 pledged by next Wednesday to be payable January 10, if the cage is to be built this winter...
...comparatively late date, and come mainly from Liny, Strabo and Pausanias. Sulla plundered it in 87 B. C., to get money to pay his soldiers, and the temple never entirely recovered from his raid, although in the second century of our era enjoyed the favor of Antoninus Pius, who built baths within its precincts. After that the darkness of the middle ages settled upon Epidauros, and we do not hear of it again until the latter part of the last century, when it was visited first by Richard Chandler, and afterwards by many travelers both English and French. All agreed...
...Flat" received its initial interpretation at the Tremont theatre last night. The play is built upon the financial difficulties of a young couple who married on nothing, purchased furniture on the installment plan and went to live in a flat, while the husband writes tragedies which are never accepted. The devices to escape creditors and the dismantlement of the flat, followed by the improvising of chairs and sofas out of soap boxes and barrels, form the basis of action. The perilous adventures of persons who sit in these makeshifts and the disasters that ensue, give rise to a number...
...have been made this fall in the athletic field presented to Williams college by the Hon. Byron Weston. The grounds, a great improvement on the old ones, are sufficiently large to furnish two foot ball fields, and give an excellent chance for base ball. This fall the donor has built a track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth...