Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard must either increase its accommodations shortly or stop its growth, now is an excellent time to fix at least on paper the main lines upon which to build in the future. Indeed it is even possible that a well prepared plan might impel an intending benefactor to give to the College the funds needed to properly develop some part of the College grounds, by building avenues and roads and setting up trees and shrubbery, creating in this way suitable building sites. The grading and planting of a quadrangle and its decoration with aisles and walks, and steps and avenues...
...course first, that many courses prescribed for the student of architecture coincide with a number offered in the elective pamphlet. Thus if the college course is carefully planned with that end in view it is possible to graduate in Architecture in three years after taking the academic degree, or even in two years, although this is not advised...
...such a plan is undoubted, they are in closer touch with all that is of present or future importance to the University than any of the Governing Boards. Notwithstanding, there is much in the plans of the committee which, we believe, would prove of lasting benefit to the University. Even if it is undesirable that a complete scheme for the future development of the College property should be formulated, even if the future needs of the College in the way of buildings cannot be outlined, to the laity at least it seems as if the possibilities of buildings...
...College buildings would be obtained if all artistic questions where University property is concerned were submitted to a standing advisory committee composed partly of several competent professional men and partly of members of the Governing Boards of the University," it can but be plain to every one that even if "artistic questions can rarely be separated from questions of cost, of utility, and of express or implied obligation to benefactors," they might often be made to conform to each of these specifications...
...cage will be large enough to permit the regular throw from the home plate to second and base running. Needless to say, it is a great improvement over the old cage, which was so small that the men were greatly hampered in base running and batting and even in fielding grounders. The building is 150 feet long by 60 feet broad and 30 feet high in the centre, and in appearance is neat and substantial...