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...McNamee intends to erect a new dormitory on the corner of Main and Bow streets. The building is to be four stories high and will have three suites on each floor. It will cost about $22,000, exclusive of the land, and it is to be of brick, with a frontage of 74 feet on Main Street and 87 on Bow. The entrance will be on Main Street...
...Charles K. Landis has presented to the University of Pennsylvania a tract of five acres of ground near Sea Isle City, N. J. He proposes to erect a marine aquarium there which will be under the direct charge of the University Biological department...
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...