Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next spring's sports, the remainder being done in wood, but Mr. Averoff intends to have the entire structure, which will be capable of seating 70,000 spectators, ultimately constructed in Pentelic marble at his own expense. Its sides slope up to a height of from 60 to 80 feet, and the interior space, in the form of a horseshoe, is 670 feet long by 109 feet wide. It forms a natural hollow between two of the lowest spurs of Mt. Hymettus, and from it can be had a splendid view of Athens and the surrounding country, including...
...great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side, the moraine is fronted by a plain of sand and gravel, spread...
This excursion will visit characteristic exposures of the Triassic sandstone and Lava beds of the Connecticut Valley. The special points of interest will be quarries in the faulted lava beds, a portion of the great fault here crossing the valley with a throw of about 3,000 feet; further the bed of ashes and lava blocks between Meriden and Berlin, and Chauncey Peak, whence a general view of the region may be obtained...
...dormitory will stand in front of and at right angles to Soule Hall, and will be a four story structure of the Colonial style, and in dimensions, 100 by 30 feet. The material will be of brick, and the coping of the entrance doors and the sills of windows will be of white marble. Above each window will be an ornamental flat brick arch, the keystone of white marble. The exterior plans were furnished by Architect Petitt of Brooklyn, N. Y.; those for the interior, which is closely patterned after Holworthy Hall at Harvard, were drawn in the office...
...building will be divided by unbroken fireproof partitions into three sections, each with its separate entrance, halls and stairways. There will be accommodations for forty-four boys in twenty-two suites, each extending the full depth of the building, and comprising a 15x12 foot study and two bedrooms 11x81/2 feet. All studies will be at the front of the building, facing the west and commanding the view across the school grounds. There will be another suite for the resident instructor, and still another which will de used as a social room. The interior finish will be of whitewood...