Word: sites
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...locate the Union on Massachusetts avenue between the Yard and the Gold Coast, where every undergraduate of high or low degree would have fallen over it several times a day, for it is surprising how a four-minute walk deters able-bodied boys: The more attractive Quincy-street site was chosen, and the building is, consequently, off the main-travelled paths...
...building will be a large stone and brick structure and will be placed between Pierce Hall and the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, filling in that corner of the line of buildings about Jarvis Field. The small wooden building now on this site will soon be removed, and it is hoped that work on excavation for the foundations will commence before winter...
...been made in improving the grounds and buildings belonging to the University. The most conspicuous advance is in the construction of the President's new house, which is situated on Quincy street between the house that President Lowell now occupies and Emerson Hall. Ground was broken on the new site last fall, and the work which remains to be done is being rushed in order that the building will be ready for occupancy as soon as possible. At present the earliest possibility of this will be at Christmas...
...where Professor Francke, Curator of the Museum, made a brief address. The Choir and Glee Club then sang three of the old German hymns, "Machet die Thore Weit," "Ein Feste Burg," and "Das ist der Tag des Herrn." After the singing of the hymns the guests went to the site of the new museum, where the cornerstone was ready to be lowered. Ambassador von Bernstorff performed the ceremony of laying the stone, and then stepped forward to address the guests. He stated that he deemed it a great honor to be present at the exercises and he thanked Harvard University...
...guests will assemble in the old Germanic Museum, in the triangle at Broadway, Cambridge and Quincy streets, and will then proceed to the site of the new building, on the corner of Divinity avenue and Kirkland street. The exercises will consist of the actual laying of the cornerstone and an address by Ambassador von Bernstorff...