Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three universities in the lead in athletics. The determination to win in every possible branch of athletics prevades the whole college and brings out many candidates for the teams. It is reasonable to suppose, then that the site nearer the city will certainly not check the growth of a like spirit in Columbia. And the conditions for its development will be present. And the conditions for its development will be present. Dormitories will give the college life which is one of Columbia's greatest needs. A gymnasium will undoubtedly be built. Within five minutes' walk is the Hudson River...
...country which have been formed the longest, parts of them having always remained above water. The sediment washed by the sea from these protruding tracts has formed lime-stone and sand stone about their edges and the strata of these rocks is therefore much thicker here than in regions like the Mississippi basin which have been often submerged. One of the great theories of mountain formation takes these sedimentary rocks and their overloading of the earth's crust for the cause of the uplifting. The study of such movements and their influence on neighboring formations well explains the existence...
...dormitory nearly completed at Yale is 160 feet long and 46 feet wide. It is four stories high with a steep gable roof with dormer windows. It is built of rough-faced Longmeadow sand-stone and its general appearance is very much like Durfee Hall. Three entrances open on the campus and 26 double rooms and 22 single rooms are to be the accommodations. It will cost about...
...held him true to every chapel appointment notwithstanding the protracted and dangerous illness of Mrs. Herford at the time. When urged not to feel obliged to hold too strictly to the duties of university pastor during the most serious part of his wife's illness his reply was, "I like to leave a clean edge to my work." The remark deserves to be cherished by every Harvard man as a guiding principle in the performance of his own work...
...library there is one room which is very seldom visited by the hundreds of men who use the library every day. This is the room directly over the delivery room, and it is reached by the iron stairs that run up just to the west of the card catalogue. Like a great many other sights about the college which visitors see and which are often unknown to most of the students, this room in the library contains a number of very interesting things, well worth a visit...