Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Built with Rockefeller money to house foreign students...
Then, with the suddenness of breakfast, folk discovered last week, that the great Baptist billionaire would contribute $500,000?a sum more than twice as great as that given by any other individual.* The prospect changed. The Cathedral fund jumped to nearly half, the requisite. It might be built in the Bishop's life time...
They build ships of steel nowadays; some of them approach 1,000 feet in length and 60,000 tons in displacement. But the little steamer Arcturus that slipped out of New York Harbor, last week, is built of wood, is less than 300 feet in length and not 2,500 tons in displacement. Yet she went forth on what promises to be a great voyage...
...proposed Roosevelt Hotel, at Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets, will be built, all adverse criticism not-withstanding. As the University has taken no action to buy the site, Edward N. Wyner '18 announced yesterday that he would go ahead with his original plans, and gave directions for work on the foundation to begin immediately...
...healthy well-balanced life and as a result surpassing them in attainment, they will of necessity be compelled to change their methods and ideals. A few incurables will always remain: but they must take a low place in the general esteem. A tradition of competitive scholarship can be built up but the first task of the authorities is to convince the college man that such competition is worth-while. To rely on publicity is perhaps noxious, but in this case as in a thousand others, the end will justify the means. Youth will always seek fame, even...