Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plans have just been announced for an armory to be built on the Yale Field, to be ready for use next fall at the beginning of college. The land is to be furnished by the University and the entire expense will be borne by the graduates. The buildings that will compose the armory will be two in number, The larger will consist of a drill hall, 100 by 210 feet, and several smaller rooms on each side, storage rooms for each battery, gun rooms, lockers, and a lecture room. The smaller building is to be used as a stable...
When the Freshman dormitories were built last year, thirteen small trees were planted in the plot of land between Smith and Standish Halls. Since the soil was not good, they did not grow very well, and therefore were taken out last fall...
...land on which the Freshman dormitories now stand was once a part of the river. But gradually the shore was built out as an ash-heap, so that all the land within one hundred and fifty feet of the river is now made up mostly of ashes. Large wooden piles were uncovered by the workmen last fall when they were taking out the old trees from this land. These piles were foundations of gas wharves at which coal barges used to unload...
...work here digging large holes in preparation for planting larger and more vigorous trees. The land between Standish and smith Halls is divided into two plots. Seven trees will be placed in the plot in front of Standish Hall and six in front of Smith. These thirteen new trees will be elms, about fifteen feet high, and will be planted as soon as the frost thaws out of the ground. The work is being directed under the supervision of R. T. Fisher, head of the Forestry Department...
...including the car. It is propelled by a 150 horse-power Sturtivant motor which drives two propellors of the swivel type. It is capable of carrying a crew of eight men and a useful load of two thousand pounds. The balloon can rise either from the water or the land. The dirigible is now being finished in the works of the Connecticut Aircraft Company in Portsmouth, N. H., and on completion will be shipped to Hartford and set up in the Armory. The battery men who take the training will spend a week in Hartford where they will be instructed...