Word: finer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...running track it is proposed to have a foundation of 18 inches of heavy stone. Over this a layer of finer crushed stone will be placed, and the whole will receive the usual cinder covering. The practice fields will be rolled and graded somewhat, but not much work will be done until the necessity for it appears, since the only really damp portion of the field is, as we have seen, that area near the middle portion of the old gridiron which was usually too slippery for satisfactory work. The whole field will ultimately be surrounded with trees, and when...
Very little of the finer carving was done when the blocks were set in place. The metopes and the figures of the pediment were carved in the work shops and set in place finished, but the other stones were carved and the columns fluted after the rough work of building had been completed...
...that they had the weaker side of the case were on their mettle, and they did not lose a single opportunity to improve their position and undermine that of their opponents. The closing speeches of the men who had the negative of the question were masterpieces, and probably nothing finer has been heard in Sanders Theatre since the first joint debate years...
...greatest praise is due to the B. A. A. crew for the magnificent contest which they put up. Nothing could have been finer than the way in which they answered Harvard's spurt in the last half mile and kept it up until they had won by ten feet...
...whose work is so unique and whose relat on to the College is so intimate and prculiar that it morits special consideration. For the Prospcct Union is a direct outgrowth of some of the best life of the Univcrsity, and is a splendid expression in concrete form of the finer Harvard spirit. The story of the birth and growth of this, "Harvard's evening college for workingmen," may be unfamiliar to many of the newer members, at least, of the student body...