Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...giving views of the palms and all plant life. A grove of cocoanut palms is always a sign of a negro village in Ceylon. The growth and culture of tea is the principal occupation of the inhabitants of this island. Besides the cocoanut, cabbage and pinnate palms, the forests contain a curious growth called rain trees which drip with moisture. Vines called runners or climbers, covered with blossoms cling about the palms to a height of fifty feet. Next to the palm, the bamboo is the most interesting to the botanists. This species grows luxuriantly in Ceylon...
...before the University, and particularly before the members of the religious societies, the preliminary agitation in regard to a building in which the religious societies might find a more suitable home than they have at present. The editorial is a forcible statement of the opinion that the building should contain a home not only for the religious interests of the students, but also for the more serious of the literary societies. Many men feel that the University would be better served if such a building were intended primarily for the religious interests of the students; and I wish to state...
...mechanical engineering laboratory and hydraulic laboratory will be in the basement, with a room for the testing apparatus, heating arrangements, etc. The students in the Mechanical Engineering Department will occupy the first floor which will contain two large and one small drawing rooms, lecture rooms and the library. On the second floor will be eight rooms, among which will be the laboratory of physics and electrical engineering and a dark room for optics. The third floor will be devoted to the civil engineering course and will contain two large draughting rooms and a number of recitation rooms. On the fourth...
...main building will be 52 feet long, 40 feet wide, and two and a half stories high. In the basement will be the servants' quarters, dining room, bed-rooms, etc. The first floor will contain two large wards, private rooms, an operating room, a pharmacy, and nurses' and linen rooms. The second floor will have two more large wards and several private rooms. The kitchen and bath-rooms will be in a wing. Each floor will have a sun porch on the south side. The building will be heated by furnace heat and by open fires. The infirmary will...
Dartmouth's remodeled "gym.," when completed, will contain a swimming tank 80 by 20 feet in dimensions...