Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tucker, recently elected president of Dartmouth, is to deliver a lecture in the Old South Church, Boylston street, next Sunday...
...soon as this building is under way the corporation of the university will attend to the remodelling of Gore Hall. The old reading room will be altered and additions will be made to convert it into a bookstand, relieving the present overcrowed one and thus making room for the great number of books which are constantly being added to the library...
Twenty-five men began training Monday for Columbia's track athletic team The old men who will train are Kingsley, (Captain), Harding. Bowman, Morris, Pell, Harrison, Grace, Street, Stout, Iglehart, Leavy, Earle, Brown, De Salazar, and Lawson...
...from the Damascus Gate stands a hill that looks exceedingly like a skull in the sunlight, and could well give to the hill the name, the "place of a skull" Close at hand have been discovered the remains of an old Roman road leading directly to Herod's Tower in the city from which it could easily be seen. Moreover, just back of the hill stands a garden, and along its edge runs a wall, pretty well buried under the accumulated dust of ages. Excavations have brought to light a tomb in the wall, protected by a rolling stone, just...
...old fairy tale, the house was built from the top downwards, first the chimney and last of all the foundations. Even today we do much the same thing. We build our lofty ideal castles in the air, and then the task confronts us of adding to them the foundations which shall make them materialize. Those who can do this are those who achieve success. And it is a hard task. We belong to two worlds, the real and the ideal, and each has its share in our lives. All things have birth in the former; but they must gain their...