Word: finest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Osborn Hall, which is being erected on the Yale campus, to be used exclusively for recitation rooms, is fast nearing completion, and when finished will be one of the finest buildings belonging to the college, as well as the best equipped building of the kind in the country. The interior finish is almost entirely oak, the hall way and rooms being finished of that work. The instructors' desks of polished oak are all in position and the students' seats are being fast put in. Particular attention has been paid to the heating and ventilation of the building, some new apparatus...
...first half of the Princeton-Harvard game it was an even thing-the sky was blue, the sun shone, the Harvard cannon boomed and everything was lovely-everybody was happy and cried, "The finest game of foot ball ever seen!" The second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand...
CORNELL.The new library building now being erected at Cornell will be the finest building of the kind in America. It will stand on the very summit of the hill and will be the most conspicuous object on the campus. The first story will be of Michigan red stone, and the entire upper part of Ohio white stone. The main building will be in the form of a cross with a tower twenty feet square and one hundred and seventy-two feet high at the end of the arms. In the tower will be placed the university clock and chimes...
...pianoforte does not require so much time as the violin, and the best authorities consider that in no case should more than three hours a day be given to the former instrument, even by professional pupils. It is a mistake to think that organ playing is injurious to the finest piano playing. The truth is that ability to play the organ will be found greatly to help the pianist. The expense of receiving a musical education here is not more than five or six dollars a week in addition to a man's regular expenses...
...glass of the two telescopes is of the finest French make. The mirror is four inches thick, for any plate would probably change its shape from expansion or flexure. The telescopic tube is jointed so as to be air-tight throughout and at the eye-piece. Its material is steel plate one thirty-second inch thick. The temperature of the room does not effect its interior and no fogging of the object glass has occurred during cold nights...