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...upon a frame of pine scantling three-quarters of an inch wide and half an inch thick. It is built in small sections, so that it can be easily and cheaply transported. The building when ready for occupancy is 18x22 feet. The top is surmounted by a galvanized iron cupola, which is made in movable sections. The building is divided into three rooms, is lighted by six large windows, and has two entrances, one on either side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/29/1889 | See Source »

...marshes of the trees and spires of the town. The stream winds on unrippled in the sun and the drowsy shade is massed densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push up into the sky on the right. Low in the middle distance is the cupola of Hemenway Gymnasinm, and further on a slender spire or two more. The whole thing is dreamy and soft and full of summer. "Elmwood" shows one side of Lowell's home with a view of the broad veranda, and in one corner a tall graceful aisle of pines "Pines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Picturesque Cambridge. | 11/16/1887 | See Source »

...Insurance building, directly over the weather signal. "There it hung," says the account of the affair, "limp and soaked by the rain, while on the sidewalk opposite gathered crowds of students alternately watching the flag and 'giving each other game.' At length, on the roof of the cupola, appeared a number of '85 men, whose appearance was the signal for a chorus of hearty cheers from their class-mates. The supporters of '86 returned a feeble cheer, but their hearts sank as they saw an adventurous sophomore divest himself of his shoes and begin to climb up the flag pole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTURED FLAGS. | 2/3/1883 | See Source »

...cupola in Weld needs repairing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/28/1882 | See Source »

...They raise a ladder, and mount to the cupola of Harvard Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RAPE OF THE BELL. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

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