Word: norcross
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College, but soon the small dimensions, 74 feet wide by 40 feet high, proved insufficient, until in 1878, when Augustus Hemenway '75, of Boston, gave $100,000 for the erection of a new University gymnasium. The architects were Messrs. Peabody and Stearns, of Boston, and the contractors, Norcross Bros., of Worcester. The building was opened in 1879 and was then by far the largest, best equipped, and most handsome college gymnasium in the country. Since then Harvard has been surpassed in this respect by almost every university, notably Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, and by not a few preparatory and high...
...Lippman '08, H. Lipsky '08, P. C. Lockwood '07, R. Lothrop '09, F. W. McAvoy '07, R. T. Mack '08, R. E. McMath '08, A. H. Metcalf '09, J. J. Milton '08, M. W. Morrill '09, B. W. Morse sC., C. P. Noble '08, B. S. Norcross '09, J. S. O'Brien '09, J. B. O'Hare '08, G. M. Orr '08, J. A. Paine '09, H. T. Pierpont '06, B. F. Pope '09, J. C. Prizer '07, W. M. Rand '09, B. C. Rash sC., H. A. Richardson '07, O. F. Rogers '08, C. G. Rounsefell...
These buildings, which will cost over $2,000,000, are situated on a lot fronting on Longwood avenue, Brookline, and bounded by Longwood and Huntington avenues, Wigglesworth, Van Dyke and Villa streets. Messrs. Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, of Boston, are the architects, and Norcross Brothers Co. the contractors. The five buildings are placed on three sides of a longitudinal court. Facing the court from the open end, the Hygiene and Pharmacology Building is the first structure on the right. Opposite it, across the court is the Bacteriology and Pathology Building. The Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Building is the second building...
...Harvard Hall will provide for two or three hundred. The fourth and fifth floors will be occupied by bedrooms to accommodate out-of-town members. Two squash courts are to be built on the roof. The architects for the new addition are McKim, Mead & White; the contractors are Norcross Brothers...
Executive committee - H. W. Chaplin '67, R. H. Dana '74. C. H. Norcross '75, S. Kennedy '97, Ammi Brown...