Word: built
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...President says, "An experience of 270 years with dormitories has demonstrated that they are not good property for the College, it having proved impossible to earn on them so good an income as the mass of general investments of the University yields. The President and Fellows have not built a dormitory with their own money since 1870-71, and are not likely ever to build another, unless with money given for that express purpose." This is a purely business statement. It says that in general dormitories are not a good thing for the College to own because they have...
...when land was cheap, great tracts had been held by single individuals. Land rents in the Middle Ages were more indirect than direct, and were levied more on the people than on things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last 50 years...
That a good system of graduate coaching can be built up seems entirely possible, when we consider the Yale football system, a recognized success. There ordinarily the captain of the eleven comes back to act as field coach during the next season, and he has graduates to assist him who for years have played under the same system. Yale knows exactly what she is going to do and what she can do, and usually succeeds. If the same general system were applied to sports at Harvard, there is no reason why Harvard would not have success. It would...
...further pursuance of the secondary rowing plan two new eight-oared shells have been purchased by the trustees of the Weld Boat Club and the Athletic Committee respectively, and one has been placed in the Weld and the other in the Newell boathouse. They were built by Davy of Cambridge, and are heavier and more durable than the shells usually constructed for the University and Freshman crew each year. These shells will be used by two of the first upperclass crews this spring and the other first upperclass crew will have a shell used by a University crew of recent...
...artist, will give "A Rambling Talk" in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. Mr. Smith is noted for his versatility; for besides being an author and artist of considerable merit, he has been engaged in engineering and contracting for about twenty years, and has built the Race Rock lighthouse on Long Island Sound and the Block Island breakwater...