Word: sites
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plans for the new Cambridge Hotel have been considerably altered. The site on Massachusetts avenue directly opposite Beck Hall, on the ground where the College In now stands, has been given up, and it has been decided to build on the Wessellioeft grounds on Harvard street, not far from the Union. The building will be four or five stories high and will contain about one hundred rooms. The cost will be $250,000, about half the cost of the hotel as originally planned. The building will have all modern improvements except that it will not be absolutely fireproof...
...also proposed to erect on the Massachusetts avenue site an apartment house with a cafe, for the convenience of parents of students while visiting the College...
...road, and was welcomed by President Locke on the steps of Harvard Hall. Before him he saw the first Stoughton Hall, standing a little in advance of where University now stands, to the left were Hollis and Holden Chapel, to the right beyond Massachusetts, on the present site of Dane, stood the meeting-house, and beyond was Wadsworth. The governor was really welcomed, not by the President, but by Samuel Adams of the Class of 1740, and the occasion was notable as being the first when the academic atmosphere of Harvard was thrilled with the spirit of the coming revolution...
...Honduras and three months in Guatemala. The principal part of his work was the exploration of the ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala, the most important ruined city of the ancient Maya civilization. It is buried in a dense tropical jungle through which roads had to be cut to reach the site. The most remarkable of the relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations at Quirigua Mr. Gordon discovered two new monoliths, each about twenty-five tons in weight. Thirteen monoliths in all have been found. Moulds of these have been...
...plans for the new Dental School have not been completed; the site will be to the northwest of the Medical School...