Word: erected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of Trustees at Cornell University have decided to erect a new chemical laboratory and have appropriated $80,000 from the permanent funds of the university for this purpose. The great increase in the number of student during the past few years has made the new building a necessity. This laboratory, will be begun at once and will be the fourth building which is in progress on the Cornell campus. The trustees on the Cornell campus. The trustees have also appropriated $40,000 to complete the engineering building. They have decided to name the physical laboratory Lincoln Hall...
...buildings. The need of a new dormitory is more strongly felt this year than ever, every room in college being occupied and a large number of men being forced to room in town. Both of the literary societies are in a flourishing condition and will probably before long erect new halls. The Philadelphian Society, the religious organization of the college, held its annual reception to the entering students recently, and added nearly an hundred new men to its roll...
...exterior of the library will be in essentially modern style. A dome will rise from the centre of the roof above the reading room. In accordance with the terms of the gift, Yale is bound to erect two other similar structures, and the college ought to well provided with libraries when all are completed. The three buildings will together have a capacity of nearly one million volumes...
...extra days. Dr. McCosh will probably make his farewell address on Tuesday, and Dr. Patton will be inaugurated the next day. All the prominent college presidents and professors will be invited to these exercises. After retiring, Dr. McCosh will go abroad for the summer. The elass of '79 will erect their memorial to him, in the shape of a bronze life size statue by St. Gaudens, in front of Marquand Chapel...
...trustees have voted to erect a new building for the departments of engineering and architecture, and plans are now in process of preparation. A plan for the organization of the agricultural experimental station has also been adopted by the trustees and provision made for the appointment of a professor of horticulture, to begin his work next term. On the classical side the most important event of the term has been the beginning of a series of studies in classical philology, edited by Profs. Flagg, Hale and Wheeler. Two numbers have already been issued and more are to follow. Barnes Hall...