Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tomb of some Assyrian king. Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus. The sarcophagus is nearly twelve feet long, seven high and five and a half broad, and the total weight is twenty-five tons, of which the cover weighs ten. It is all of fine Parian marble. Several French savants are now studying it at Constantinople...
...nearing completion. The site of the University is a spot in the foot-hills of the Coast Range Mountains about thirty miles south of San Francisco. The grounds are several miles in extent and slightly hilly. The general plan of the new institution is a hollow oblong six hundred feet long and two hundred and fifty feet wide, leaving a quadrangle within. Around the quaprangle connecting the buildings is an arcade which will be eighteen feet high and twenty feet wide. Most of the buildings are to be built in the Spanish style, having but one story. There will...
...land in the Port bounded by Main, Inman and Bigelow streets and extending back 250 feet on the two latter streets has been selected as the site for the new Cambridge City Hall which Mr. F. H. Rindge has offered to build...
...impossible to give altogether authentic information in regard to the Harvard men that have entered. There are a number of good entries for putting the 16-pound shot. The running high kick will be an interesting event, among the entries being Phillips, who made a record of 9 feet 3 1-2 inches at the Union games last Monday; Wason of Technology, and Lee of Yale. A large number of entries have been received for the fence-vault. The tug-of-war will be an interesting event. Technology pulled Harvard at the last meeting and will undoubtedly do her best...
...simple language how the animals see, and illustrated the appearance of their eyes by drawings. Then he described the way in which a star-fish eats and how he opens the shells of oysters. The various kinds of locomotion were next described and the system of suckers, or ambulacral feet shown. The formation of new starfishes by division was next touched upon...