Word: erection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reports that come to us represent the new building which Trinity College is to erect as an architectural wonder. It is to be constructed for a combination of purposes, - Chapel, Library, Dormitory, etc., all under one roof; the whole to be finished in 1877, at a cost of about one million...
...should be given to the students at a nominal price. There is no more valuable exercise than boxing, regarded as a method of gymnastic training; and it is really a useful accomplishment. Fencing trains the eye and will, develops the figure, throws back the shoulders, and gives a more erect and graceful carriage. In all European colleges, fencing is considered a most important element of perfect education. In the Swiss college towns, all riding-masters and maitres-d'armes are required to give lessons at half-price to the students. Harvard has taken the lead in adopting what is good...
...antique glass would be lost, the brilliancy of the ornamentation destroyed, and instead of the window being "a thing of beauty and a joy forever," it would stand as a memorial of a class which cared not enough for the honor to contribute a sum sufficient for the erection of one worthy of the Hall. Moreover, when a window purchased for a small sum like this comes in contrast with such a beautiful one as the west window of Memorial Hall, it necessarily has to suffer extremely by the comparison, and its poor quality will continue to become more...
...which is obedience. Men who will sign an agreement to keep all the laws of an institution, and then deliberately break their agreement, manifest the need of military drill. Military drill, when backed by the proper authority, makes men prompt to obey, well qualified to command. It gives them erect forms and strong bodies. It makes them cultivate regular habits and develops true manliness. Such men are wanted in peace as well...
...condition of the Gymnasium and its inadequacy to the wants of the University. The remedy proposed, though the best perhaps that is available, is, however, a sorry one. "As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would be advisable, instead of undertaking to alter the present structure, to erect a plain wooden building, extensible in any direction, for a Gymnasium and Bowling-alleys, and to convert the present Gymnasium into a swimming-bath, a use for which it is well adapted." A wooden building of any description whatever, placed, as it would probably be, near some...