Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mohammedan University nine hundred years older than Oxford, is still flourishing at Cairo, as in the days of Arabian conquests. It contains but one room, the floor is paved, and the roof is supported by four hundred columns. Ten thousand students are said to have been educated there to preach the Moslem faith...
...game on Saturday, Willard knocked a foul which went way over the Pudding building. Another foul from his bat struck the top of the roof...
...structure which stands at the entrance to the yard near the Bursars office. Wadsworth House is the oldest building in Cambridge, and is in fact a venerable patriarch, dating its foundation in the year 1726, if we are able to believe the report. The venerable elm which overtops the roof of Wadsworth House was set out by President Willard, and not until sixty years after the completion of the house...
...were wild with excitement, sending up cheer after cheer for their winning crew. The dense crowds upon the roof of the Union Boat House, and along the sea wall also united in applauding the victors, while the classmates of the defeated oarsmen silently withdrew. In a few moments the gathering melted away, the crews were on their way back to Cambridge, and the class races of 1885 were over...
...each floor could be devoted to a single institution, or shared by two or more of the smaller societies. The concentration of the libraries of the various societies in one building, and, perhaps, under one general administration, would make each separate library more attractive and useful. Under the hospitable roof should be gathered the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Mass. Historical Society, The Archxological Institute of America, and a large number of other flourishing societies...