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President Carter, of Williams, has just purchased a tract of land on which he will erect a large dormitory...
...dreamed that I was fishing quietly, when suddenly I heard a commotion behind me in the boat. I turned around, and there, to my amazement, beheld a twenty-pound cod, that I had just caught, erect upon its tail, glaring at me with intense rage and indignation. Abashed and disconcerted by the menacing and determined expression of the fish, I was still more startled to observe that its body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept...
...familiar with the project from its start. The St. Paul's Society desires the Corporation to assign to it a convenient lot of land, such as that on which the old gymnasium stands, or that which lies north-east of Appleton Chapel. This being granted, the Society promises to erect on this land, within the space of three years, a building of brick or stone, to be used for the devotional exercises and necessary business meetings of the Society, and for no other purposes. It is to be noted that the Corporation has the right to require the removal...
...Yale Alumni Association has for some time had under consideration the project of obtaining a place at which its members and other graduates of the college could assemble frequently. It is proposed to erect or rent a building in which to fit up a reading or club room, and to furnish the remainder with bachelor apartments, which can be occupied by the members of the college and their friends. It is understood that the building corner of Twelfth Street and Broadway may be taken...
...Erect and free...