Word: erect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several improvements are being contemplated by those who have in charge the arrangements for the intercollegiate games in New York, May 25. The Berkeley Oval management proposes to erect at the finish of the hundred - yard course a stand made up entirely of private boxes for pleasure parties. Arrangements have been completed for quick transportation to and from the Oval on the days of the games. The grounds are only fifteen minutes' distant from the Grand Central Station, and only seven minutes from the terminal station of the elevated road at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street. After...
...invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure for salaries, repairs and improvements, general expenses, and the various useful objects to which the incomes of special funds are devoted. Under these circumstances, in the absence of any single benefactor who desires to erect a suitable reading-room and stack, is it not time that the whole body of the alumni and friends of the University should undertake to provide by a general subscription these indispensable means of instruction and research? It is the most comprehensive object for which money can be given...
Shortly after the death of Phillips Brooks, almost two years ago, a movement was begun to erect a fitting memorial to him at Harvard. Dr. Brooks had been much interested during the later years of his life in the endeavor to erect a building for the religious societies of the University, and so it was thought that such a building would be a most fitting memorial...
...committee thought that to erect and maintain such a memorial would require $300,000, of which $150,000 would be expended in the erection of the building and the remainder invested to pay the running expenses of the house. Owing to the hard times, when the committee was appointed, no formal appeal for subscriptions was made. Nevertheless voluntary subscriptions to the amount of $80,000 were received. As the times have been improving very slowly the committee has not yet made its appeal, but will probably make it soon...
...must be cooperative. If either the students in power or the Corporation insist upon looking at the matter only from their own point of view, the whole question might as well be given up in despair. The Corporation have strength in their position; they can hardly be expected to erect a second hall, if, that done, the problem of a third hall will at once take the place of the old problem. The students have strength in their position. The Corporation would not be right in persistently pursuing a do-nothing policy. If students should adopt a permanent arrangement...