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...dormitory nearly completed at Yale is 160 feet long and 46 feet wide. It is four stories high with a steep gable roof with dormer windows. It is built of rough-faced Longmeadow sand-stone and its general appearance is very much like Durfee Hall. Three entrances open on the campus and 26 double rooms and 22 single rooms are to be the accommodations. It will cost about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1892 | See Source »

...hall on the right of the fire-places are two "Fives Courts," and a stairway leading to a large meeting room for the various athletic societies. One side of this is also lined with a double row of lockers, and has another large open fire-place and three long dormer windows opening on a balcony thirty feet long, which overlooks the baseball grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Athletic Improvements. | 9/30/1889 | See Source »

...college yard was the piece of ground lying between Harvard and Massachusetts Hall and the original Stoughton Halls, which stood facing the main gate and made the eastern side of a quadrangle. The old Stoughton Hall was more picturesque than the other dormitories: it was three stories high, had dormer windows, and made some pretensions toward architectural beauty. In this building and in Massachusetts-at that time a dormitory-forty to fifty students had their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stoughton Hall--Past and Present. | 12/17/1888 | See Source »

...Reverend Ambrose Wilson." The plot is less worthy than the treatment, and were it not for an unsuspected turn at the end, would seem shallow. The ins and outs of country churches, however, must have been observed to have been so well portrayed. The essay on Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, though instructive, well written, and displaying in its argument original thought, seems somewhat out of place, in the field which the Advocate has chosen. "Carmen" needs a second reading to be appreciated. The author's conception is delicate; his expression, however, is somewhat obscure, and at times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 5/7/1888 | See Source »

...large dormer has been put upon the roof of Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 8/25/1884 | See Source »

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