Word: sites
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Seth Low made a formal offer to assume personally the cost of erecting the new library at One Hundred and Sixteenth street, on Morningside Heights, the site of the new Columbia College building. The building is to cost $1,000,000, and is to be a memorial to President Low's father, the late Abiel Abbot Low, "a merchant who taught his son to value the things for which Columbia stands...
...long felt want is being supplied in the erection of the Casino, which is to be used for dances, tennis courts and the performances of the Dramatic Association. The building will be erected by the students on a site which was given them by the trustees. An attempt has been made to secure military drill in the college, and a committee has been appointed to ask the government for an officer and the necessary supplies...
...Drake's Bay the site of the anchorage of Sir Thomas Drake on the coast of California...
...choosing the temple of Jerusalem for the site of his play, Racine secured an element of primary importance to the success of his work. About Jerusalem is gathered not only the feeling of romance and reverence of the whole world, but in the eyes of the Jews in particular, surrounded as it was by the houses of the faithful and reaching from its summit towards the heavens, it was representative of the very highest life. There court after court rose in imposing succession, one above the other, terminating in the Holy of Holies...
...Holmes was born in Cambridge on the twenty-ninth of August, 1809, and lived in the old house which formerly occupied the site of the present Gymnasium. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy and entered Harvard in 1825. At his graduation he delivered the commencement poem, and was one of the sixteen members chosen into the Phi Beta Kappa...