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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principal matters to be brought before the Episcopal convention will be the establishment of a National Episcopalian University at Washington. An endowment of $800,000 has already been collected from various sources, and the church already owns a fine site for a building in Washington. The work of establishing the University will probably be placed in the hands of the church university board of regents, which hitherto has supervised the small church schools...
...entrance to Harvard Hall, the society intends to have an inscription cut at once. It will contain the name of the Hall and the dates of its erection and the dates of the erection and destruction of the two buildings which had before been located on the site of the present hall...
...erect in the course of time are a monument or marble block on the spot in front of Austin Hall where President Langdon prayed for Prescott and his men before they set out for Bunker Hill; a memorial tablet on Wadsworth House; a properly inscribed granite block on the site near Dane Hall, of the old church where Washington, Andrew Jackson and many other famous men were received; an inscription explaining the significance of the Liberty Tree; and a tablet marking the spot where the first Harvard man fell in the Revolution. These memorials will be rather elaborate and will...
...society also intends within a very short time to restore the finger of the old sun-dial on Massachusetts Hall which has been so long missing, to mark the site of the first Stoughton Hall, to restore some almost effaced lettering on one of the corner stones of Hollis, and to place transmittenda in several of the college rooms which have been occupied by famous...
...library building for Columbia, for which President Low has made himself responsible, will be erected in the centre of a terrace occupying the highest point of land of the new site for the college buildings. About it are to be grouped in a rectangular court the minor buildings, pierced by the southern, eastern and western approaches, all on the axial lines of the building, which is to face south. Access to the southern or principal facade will be gained from One Hundred and Sixteenth street by a flight of steps 325 feet wide, surmounted by granite posts and an iron...