Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compared with the usual museum arrangements, by which all the collections of an establishment are thrown open to visitors, without any attempt to select the more important or interesting objects, or to arrange them in an instructive manner. As soon as the new geological and biological laboratories of the corner-piece are occupied, probably at the commencement of the next academic year, the same arrangement will be extended to the geological and palaeoutological collections...
...coach-drivers and laborers. Excluded as he is from good society, and confined to that of his associates, poverty-stricken, neglected, despised, he is yet fond of life and enterprise, proud of his slender knowledge, and full of contempt for the blunders of the government. From his obscure corner he looks at everything with a hostile eye, and his opposition to the state and society becomes more pronounced with every new revolutionary rising and Nihilistic attempt. - [Kolnische Zeitung...
...corner stone of the University of New Mexico was recently laid...
...veterinary hospital of the Harvard School of Veterinary Medicine, at the corner of Village and Lucas streets, Boston, will be constructed of brick with stone trimmings, fifty by sixty feet in area and three stories high, with a light and airy basement underneath. In the basement will be the forge room, the stalls and other accommodations for cattle, sheep, etc., and for the boiler and other steam heating apparatus and machinery to run the elevator. On the first floor of the building will be a large quadrangular space, surrounded by the stalls for horses. This is to be the lecture...
...corner stone of Sage College was laid with imposing ceremonies. There was much in the occasion to call earnest words from the distinguished men present, among whom may be mentioned Henry W. Sage, a man to whose liberality Cornell owes Sage College and much besides, Ezra Cornell, Chancellor Winchell of Syracuse University, Moses Coit Tyler, Goldwin Smith, Colonel Homer B. Sprague, President Angell of Ann Arbor, Dr. W. D. Wilson, Prof. Babcock, architect, and President White. Since the opening of Sage College the number of young women who have availed themselves of the privileges of Cornell University has steadily increased...