Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About 3 a. m. Saturday the inmates of Divinity Hall were awakened by the cry of "fire." The fire proved to be in the house in the rear of the hall, which is mostly occupied by students. The fire was confined to the lower story and soon extinguished...
...support from the college. It affords to men a chance to learn something of parliamentary law, to speak in public without embarrassment, and to learn to for emulate ideas with rapidity and precision. Its usefulness is manifest. We regret to learn, consequently, that the number of men from the lower classes who are accustomed to speak at the Union debates is not large, and that the interest taken by those who have spoken is not enthusiastic or persistent. This really is a great mistake. Men ought to make use of these advantages, and for those who intend to be lawyers...
...central portion is a small park, and above this and the open grounds of the hospital is the plot of ground, containing about three acres, which the Greek Government, with a liberality which has characterized all its relations to them, has given to the British and American schools. The lower part of this space is occupied by a sparse grove of olive trees, and the buildings of the two schools stand near one another at the highest part of the field, about 400 feet above the Aegean, the British School next to the Normal School, the American towards the east...
...very important that the bridge will not interfere with the mode of transportation. The piers are 500 feet apart in order to allow these great tows to pass through easily. As the Hudson at Poughkeepsie is 70 feet deep and has a large mud deposit, it is necessary to lower a large cassion with double sides. This box is 100 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 60 feet high, and weighted with gravel. Through holes in the top the mud is dredged out by a large machine, which lifts ten tons every five minutes. After the mud is dredged...
...their destination most of the men were numb with the cold and were thinking with pleasure of the bot little spread that would surely be ready for them when they got to Wellesley. The college was reached shortly after seven o'clock and the men were conducted to a lower floor of the building where they were served with coffee and cake. They eyed the coffee a while and then drank it because it was hot and they were cold. It was rumored that the cake was made by the fair collegians...