Word: erect
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Marching erect, behold her captain glorious...
Seventy-six thousand dollars have been given to erect, in conjunction with the new Medical School buildings to be constructed near the Fenway in Boston, an infants' hospital in memory of Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., of the class of 1901. Sixty thousand dollars additional are needed for the building as planned, and when this is raised work on the hospital will begin...
...mineralogical and geological departments at Yale are soon to erect a new building, which will be called Kirkland Hall...
...evident that even if the means were at hand to erect such a building as is wanted, the Corporation ought to have an additional fund of half a million to provide for an enlarged expenditure for administration; and that a million would be required to make the Library independent of the College and enable it to carry on its work easily and effectively...
Professor Pickering has announced an anonymous gift to the Observatory of $20,000, with no conditions attached as to its expenditure. It is proposed to use $10,000 immediately to erect an extension to the building in which the 115,000 valuable photographic negatives belonging to the Observatory are kept. The present building's accommodations have for a long time been insufficient for the housing of this collection of negatives which furnish a history of the entire stellar universe for the past twelve years and which is not duplicated anywhere in the world...