Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnard, who has just taken title to the College House at Harvard square with the idea of converting it into a first class hotel, is planning to erect a theatre on part of the lot and has already leased the theatre for a period of ten years to Mr. Phillip Davis '03 and Mr. A. S. Black...
...Erect New Library Elsewhere...
...Wulf replied: "No, they will not build there, but we will probably leave the ruins there. The university would not be free to build on the ruins. It is an historical monument, and the government would interfere with any change. The American universities have raised $500,000 to erect a new library, which will probably be built outside the city on more extensive grounds. I don't know when they will begin to collect books, but we want to have a library as soon as possible; I could not understand a university without a library...
Massachusetts Hall was started in 1718 and finished in 1720. The Province of Massachusetts heeded the repeated pleas of President John Leveret of Harvard for another building and appropriated 3,500 pounds to be used to erect "a fair and goodly house of brick." The province was poor in those days, and this was considered a magnificent sum. The building is indeed "a fair and goodly house." Its substantial timbers and brick have stood 200 years of wear and tear...