Word: erecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appointment of a committee, of which Chief Justice Fuller is chairman. As the Senate bill only carries with it an appropriation of a few thousand dollars, for preliminary organization, a committee, composed of representative women, has been formed for the purpose of raising $250,000, in order to erect the first of the university buildings, provided the pending bill is passed...
...plea published for funds to erect a gate at Harvard in memory of Marshall Newell will surely be liberally responded to. Marshall Newell's life though ended so early and so sadly stands before us as a type to arouse ambition. It was that of a man whose pleasure it was to live among men and to unselfishly forward their interests; who considered nothing done unless well done, nothing won unless by steadfast effort...
...college property on Holyoke street, on which it was proposed to erect the new Randall Dining Hall, has been sold to Mr. J. A. Little, the owner of Dunster. The plans for the new dining hall are not yet completed, but it has been decided that the hall will be built somewhere on Kirkland street...
...athletic authorities of the University of Pennsylvania will erect a memorial tablet to Osgood, the former Pennsylvania halfback, who was killed while fighting in Cuba...
...been proposed to erect in his native city of Edinburgh a memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson, and a committee of his Scotch and English admirers and friends, headed by Lord Rosebery and having among its number those as near to Stevenson as Mr. Sidney Colvin, Mr. George Meredith, and Mr. J. M. Barrie, has been already formed to carry out the project. But Stevenson is no-where held in greater admiration or affection than in America, and it seems certain than many of his American readers would be glad of an opportunity to take part in this tribute...