Word: iron
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plans for the buildings of the new sporting grounds of the Philadelphia Ball Club were recently completed. The grand stand will be divided into three portions. The centre portion (reserved) will be furnished with six hundred iron folding-chairs with perforated board seats. In the rear will be seven private boxes seating eight persons each. The right arm will seat seven hundred and sixty, and the left arm nine hundred and eighty persons. This gives a seating capacity in the stand for twenty-three hundred and ninety-six persons. Along the Columbia avenue side of the grounds will be first...
...diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...
...Friday, 12 M. Subject, "Iron," Thursday, 2, 3 P. M., "Cobalt and Gold...
...students themselves. The system that is likely to be adopted at Cornell, according to the Cornell Sun, is as follows : "Somewhere upon the university grounds will be erected a boiler house. From this house main pipes will be laid to the different buildings. These mains will be of wrought iron covered with asbestos. Each length will then be put into a pump log, but separated from it by strips of wood, thus forming a layer of non-conducting air. This will render it unnecessary to lay the pipes below the frost. The method of piping the different rooms...
...connection with the essay on Mr. Gladstone, the following from Mr. Emerson's "English Traits" is interesting. He is speaking of English university men: "When born with good constitutions they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box-Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys; and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture...