Word: reared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rear Admiral Nicholson, commanding the European station, telegraphs to the navy department that all the vessels of that squadron now in the Mediterranean are under orders to proceed to Alexandria, Egypt, to look after American interests at that port...
...deadly combat their treacherous Legendre." The triumphal procession will start from the Worth monument at 10 P.M., the students wearing white gowns and carrying torches. Preceding the procession will be a band of music, while a wagon, carrying an effigy of the "vanquished foe" will bring up the rear. Ambrose D. Henry will be the imperator of the evening; a poem will be read by the haruspex, J. Foster Jenkins, Jr., and J. H. Ward, Jr., the carnifex, will deliver the oration. These exercises will be held on the college campus, after which the students and guests will march...
...beams, as on the first floor. The basement of the building is given up to the lavatories for professors' and students' use, the boiler rooms and two large unpacking rooms from which an elevator runs to the librarian's room. All goods can be loaded and unloaded at the rear door of the basement, as the ground slopes considerably from the front to the rear of the building...
...extreme easterly end of the ground-floor is a large lecture room 42 by 48, corresponding to one of the same dimensions in the westerly wing of the building. Coming back to the vestibule and going through the door at the northerly side, toward the rear of the building, the large hall is entered running nearly east and west, leading from one wing to the other, and furnishing communication between the large lecture rooms. This hall is lighted by a circular bay window at either end, and the effect of the hall is very much added to by a circular...
...Rear Admiral John Rodgers died at Washington last evening...