Word: site
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question at present of greatest interest to Yale men is whether the new recitation building is to be erected on a site such as to practically destroy the "fence" or no?" The money for the new hall was given by an unknown donor with the express provision that it be situated on the corner by the "fence." Every effort is being made to secure a change in the conditions. A large mass meeting of the students was recently held at which resolutions were unanimously adopted protesting against the proposed plans, and a committee composed of undergraduates from the different classes...
...extension of the School of Mines building so that it will be four stories high with a basement. A tower will occupy the space of 45x60 feet on the corner of Fourth avenue and 49th street. A new lecture hall 40x60 feet is to be built on the site at present occupied by the president's house. It is not yet fully decided whether the new lecture hall shall be constructed separately or shall be made into one building with the extension of the School of Mines hall. Besides these buildings, an imposing administration structure is prepared...
...Whereas, The erection of this building on the site proposed will separate the Fence from the Campus and entirely destroy its true character...
...Resolved, That we, the students of Yale University, do earnestly petition the Corporation to use the means in their power to prevent the erection of this building on the site proposed; and, be it further...
...there were a number of these old houses along North Avenue, but one by one they have been removed until this last representative remains. It will probably be allowed to stand a year or more longer as the new dormitory is to be built round and not on its site...