Word: church
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Monday at three o'clock, Dr. McKenzie will address a meeting in Shepard Memorial Church in furtherance of the plan for providing a church building for the American Church Society in Berlin which is now under the care of Professor Stuckenberg. The society is made up entirely of Americans and includes about one hundred and fifty students. One hundred thousand dollars is needed, of which two thousand dollars is hoped for from Cambridge and Harvard University...
...winning from Harvard last spring, after a very close game. Although six members of last year's team graduated last year and have not as yet returned to college, nevertheless Princeton's outlook is very favorable, unless Harvard develops an exception ally strong team. By the graduation of Hodge, Church, Blackwell, Talcott, Nicholson and Bliss, two places on the attack, two on the defence, and goal and coverpoint are left open. The men have been practicing all fail and winter, as long as the weather permitted, and have played quite a number of games. In these games Browning, '89, Uebelacker...
...Venus di Medici, found in the villa of Hadrian at Rome, the statue of Niobe, and numerous others. The great glory of Florence is the Duomo, or cathedral, built of black and white marble, with a tower, said to be the handsomest in the world. The baptistry of this church contains a number of famous bronze doors, one pair of which occupied the artist for twenty years...
Views of many other churches and statues were also shown, giving altogether a most clear and satisfactory idea of the city. Pisa is situated on the Arno nearer the sea. The city is noted for a group of buildings surrounding the Duomo, or cathedral, which dates from the eleventh century. In this church is the identical lamp from whose movements Galileo deduced the laws of the pendulum. The baptistry is a very handsome building, but the chief interest centers in the well known "Leaning Tower," from whose summit Galileo made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower...
Besides the present buildings, the plan embraces reservations for extensive additional building sites for a university church, a memorial arch, buildings for the industrial department now under construction, libraries and museums, a botanic garden, four districts laid out in building lots suitable for detached dwellings and domestic gardens, with public ways directly communicating with the central university buildings, sites for a kindergarten, a primary school, an advanced school, and a school of industry and physical training, and a direct avenue between the central quadrangle and a proposed station of the Southern Pacific Railway, bordered by groves and promenades, with space...