Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordingly been enlarged to nearly double the size of last year. The hill on the west side of the old field has been taken away and the clay carted to the south side, where it has been used to fill up an old hollow. The hollow corner at the northeast has also been filled in, and space sufficient for three or four new football fields has thus been gained. It will be no longer possible for men from other colleges to watch the Princeton team at practice, for the parts of the grounds where there was formerly no fence have...
Work has been begun at the armory in New Haven in preparation for the winter games which take place Friday and Saturday of this week. The track will contain sixteen laps to the mile, the finish being in the northeast corner of the building. A fifty-yards track has been laid out diagonally across the floor. A large number of seats have been reserved. It is expected in New Haven that Harvard will send a strong team to compete in these games...
Holmes Field has been greatly improved by the addition of a new grandstand at the northeast corner; while Jarvis has been also benefited by the transference of the old stand to the northern side...
...rods northeast of Divinity Hall the foundations for the new theological library have been staked out and the work of erection will soon begin. This site for the building is chosen because it is planned to make a quadrangle of the library, Divinity Hall, and at some future date of a chapel which will be to the southeast of Divinity. The woods to the east will complete the square. The new library building is to be of red brick with brown sand stone trimmings, and will contain four lecture rooms, a stack which will hold 40,000 volumes...
...will be some weeks before the "early-rising rosy fingered dawn" will see into the college rooms and disturb the sleepers. Thanks be to the goodies for this boon. The weather during the first half of the recess was as unpleasant as cold rains and low clouds and northeast winds could make it. But on Saturday there was a decided and most agreeable change. The change, however, of course had to have some drawbacks. For while the warm sun made the tennis nets and players sprout up profusely over Holmes and Jarvis, and started the struggling grass in the yard...