Word: erecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Fisk University has decided to erect a chapel in memory of the late Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, with the $25,000 left to that university...
...invaluable library of scientific records, is difficult to find, when at slight expense, though possibly with some trouble, the collection could be temporarily shifted to some fire-proof structure where, even though inconvenient for reference, it would at least be safe. The need of the observatory of funds to erect suitable buildings is urgent, but the probability of obtaining such bequests would not be lessened, while the probability of having something to put in the prospective structures would be greatly increased, by the precaution which we propose...
Twenty-eighth: I give and bequeath to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars upon the trust and the uses following. that is to say, that the said corporation shall without unreasonable delay erect upon land belonging or to belong to it in a suitable and desirable situation an Art Museum to be called and known as the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum of Harvard College, to be a fire proof structure of ornamental and appropriate architecture to be used for the collection and exhibition of works of art of every...
...college sports. "When the brilliant sunset at Springfield on that memorable Saturday had tinged the scene with its crimson glow, the heart of every Harvard man felt warm with the grateful radiance." Such an event enables the graduates of New York to walk with prouder step and more erect heads; and if ever in the course of the pressing duties of life the graduates lose something of their close connection to the college, such events serve to renew the bonds and unite them all in reverent devotion for the Alma Mater...
Princeton and Yale propose to erect statues to their ex-presidents, Dr. McCosh and Dr. Woolsey...