Word: site
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...captains of the three athletic teams, Young '92, Vredenburgh '92 and King '93. When ready they will be submitted to the Graduate Advisory Committee for their approval. The building will be of brick, with pressed-brick trimmings, one story in height, with tin roof, and will occupy the site of the present club house, which will be moved to one side. The interior will be finished plainly in wood. It will contain three large dressing-rooms and 400 lockers. Special attention will be given to the plumbing. There will be two large bath-rooms, three or four showers, and several...
...from Harvard was sent to make astronomical observations in South America. The first was under the direction of Mr. S. I. Bailey and was very successful. Prof. William H. Pickering was in charge of the second and, with a number of assistants, he left Cambridge in December, 1890. A site about three-miles northwest of Arequipa in Peru was selected and a station established. It is over 8000 feet above the sea level and is especially fortunate in the remarkable steadiness of the air and the clearness of the sky. The Bashe telescope was mounted and during the year...
...committee was appointed to find a proper site for a club house and the executive committee was empowered to take action regarding the same...
President Low has already received subscriptions, amounting to $315,000, for the removal of the college to the proposed site at Bloomingdale. Three separate pledges of $100,000 have been received, and there is a man who promises to give $50,000 for every $100,000 subscribed. It is confidently expected that the necessary sum will be raised in a short time. About $1,250,000 will be needed before the college can take the important step...
Another plan, one which was the scheme favored by the late Ex-President Barnard is to make such concessions to the City of New York that the present University of New York shall be done away with and in return the city shall grant Columbia a suitable site in one of the large parks. Although greater difficulties lie in the way of this plan than of the other it would be the most desirable as regards the ultimate results...