Word: sites
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bill has been sent to Albany to provide a new site and buildings for the College of the City of New York...
...other at Cambridge, and earnestly desire that it may be immediately undertaken. They believe that such a building would greatly further at the University the broad religious work in which he was interested, and in a way which he would have heartily approved. They have already indicated a site for the building, namely, the corner of Quincy street and Broadway, a site conveniently central as regards the northern and southern portions of the University precincts and also close to Appleton Chapel on the West and to Memorial Hall on the North...
Professor F. G. Peabody gave an interesting talk before the Christian Association last evening on recent discoveries made at Jerusalem by which the probable locality of the site of the Crucifixion has been ascertained. The old traditions about this site were that it was discovered by the mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which...
...Bible, on the contrary, implies in every instance that Christ was crucified outside the walls. The Bible accounts point out also that the site was conspicuous from the city, for it could be seen from afar; that it was near a highway, for the passers by stopped and railed at Christ on the cross; that it was nigh unto the city;" that it was close by a garden, in which was a sepulchre, in which they laid Christ; that the place was called "the place of a skull...
...corporation designated as a site the space on Chapel street between the art school and Osborne Hall...