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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This excursion will visit characteristic exposures of the Triassic sandstone and Lava beds of the Connecticut Valley. The special points of interest will be quarries in the faulted lava beds, a portion of the great fault here crossing the valley with a throw of about 3,000 feet; further the bed of ashes and lava blocks between Meriden and Berlin, and Chauncey Peak, whence a general view of the region may be obtained...
This excursion will visit characteristic exposures of the Triassic sandstone and Lava beds of the Connecticut Valley. The special points of interest will be quarries in the faulted lava beds, a portion of the great fault here crossing the valley with a throw of about 3,000 feet; further the bed of ashes and lava blocks between Meriden and Berlin, and Chauncey Peak, whence a general view of the region may be obtained...
...name Prospect Union has never fully satisfied a portion of our members and friends. Now that we are to be incorporated, it is necessary to settle finally this question of the name. Various suggestions have been made, but thus far no substitute for the present name, pleasing to any large number, has been suggested. Though it may mean nothing to persons not familiar with our work, Prospect Union has come to mean much to many of us both in college and in Cambridge and Boston. Perhaps it would be wise to let well enough alone...
...delivery room, increased space for the card-catalogue and the public; but the great change will consist of the complete reconstruction of the interior of the original Gore Hall building. This structure has been stripped to the bare walls. A three story stack will be placed in the lower portion of the empty shell, which will bring the second story of the stack on the level of the delivery room floor. Space will be taken out of this second and third floor of the stack for a staircase to the reading room. This new apartment vestry in the upper stack...
...appearance of the Monthly may be said to mark the beginning of purely literary activity see the college, for in the work of a daily paper the literary element does not predominate. Another week or so will in the opening numbers of the Advocate and Lampoon. While the athletic portion of the college is devoting itself body and soul to football, it would be pleasing to see a corresponding vigor on the part of those by whom the literary reputation of the college is established...