Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby North Springfield, Va., the businesslike Russians inspected a big new tract of mass-built, medium-priced ($14,000-$18,000) houses. On the way, they commented on the lack of flowers along the roads, later expressed amazement that so many trees had been cut down at the building site. "In Russia," one of them said, "anyone who cuts down a tree without permission is heavily fined...
...building, which probably stood on the present site of Matthews, opened two years later. The project, however, soon ran into difficulties. According to the London Society's grant, Indians would attend the College so that "preserving their own language, they may obtain the knowledge of other tongues and dispense the Indian tongue in the College." The trouble was that few aborigines cared to obtain knowledge or to dispense it. Those that did try to enter Harvard, about twenty in all, came hopelessly unready for higher education and had to be prepared for entrance in local prop school's at Harvard...
...This site and possible others along Mt. Auburn St. are considered quite suitable for a multiple story garage by James F. Clapp, Jr. '31, a member of the Boston firm of architects Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot who have designed most of Harvard's building for the last century...
Yale University officials have announced that a $2,500,000 donation from John Hay Whitney, a New York investor, will now permit the school to occupy the site of a projected eleventh upperclass college...
Yale has also purchased three high school buildings which now occupy the site. Under the contract Yale will wait for New Haven to erect two new high schools before remodeling one of the older buildings for classroom use and demolishing the other...