Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every one at the Tree will be requested to rise and sing "Fair Harvard." Seniors are expected to know the first two verses...
Arthur Stanwood Pier of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; subject, "Rise and Fall of New Rome...
...Trusts are of positive economic advantage. - (a) Decrease cost of production. - (1) Competition is wasteful. (2) Improved methods. - (b) Prevents overproduction. - (1) Regulate supply to demand - (c) Steady labor. - (d) Prevent ruinous competition. (e) Increase consumption. - (1) Facilities of transportation. - (2) Lower prices. - (f) Prices may rise temporarily, but fall steadily afterward...
...library building itself will be in the classic style, designed in the form of a Greek cross and surmounted by a dome. At the southern end of the cross and facing the main entrance to the university a flight of twenty-six steps 86 feet wide will rise to a portico of ten Ionic columns, 35 feet high, which will form the main entrance to the structure. This portico will be surmounted by a panel extending its entire length and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate of the main portico which will be 12 feet above the terrace, will...
...offices. Directly ahead the vestibule will open into the main reading room, which will be on a some what higher level and occupy the entire space beneath the dome, which will have a diameter of 70 feet. From four piers of limestone at the corners will rise four richly-coffered vaults, corresponding to the four arms of the building, and from them will spring the dome to a height of 106 feet above the floor...