Word: places
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...junior invitation fencing tournament of the New York Fencing Club, which was to have taken place last Friday and Saturday, has been postponed until April...
Realizing that the removal from the old place will be required by the Corporation in the near future, the committee began by looking about for a new site. The place which most naturally suggested itself was the quadrangle formed by Sever, the Library, University and Appleton Chapel. Aside from the beauty of the enclosure, it was thought the large space would afford a greater seating capacity and a less crowded and, consequently, less dangerous arrangement than sould be secured about the Tree. Investigation, however, revealed that the position of the trees makes impossible the erection of suitable grand stands...
...Delta offers a number of advantages. First, as a place for holding the afternoon exercises, it is approved by the President and the Corporation; second, it affords a seating capacity of one thousand seats more than the space about the Tree; third, the arrangement of the seats admits of larger entrances and exits, and thereby reduces the danger in case of a panic; fourth, more room within the enolosure made by the seats is secured to the graduates and undergraduates than is possible about the Tree; fifth, the John Harvard statue forms an appropriate centre about which the Seniors...
...move entirely away from the old enclosure is, at first sight, an infinitely harder step to take than to modify the exercises in the same place. Even if the exercises are degenerate, the associations of the place still remain. But after all is not a move inevitable, and illustrative of the expansion of the College? Let Seniors look at the old place and consider the law laid down by the Corporation, and they will see clearly that there is no room for improvement over the ill success of last year. The courses which lie open are either to move...
...stand at Foster's is the best place in Cambridge to get a good lunch. All kinds of temperance drinks...