Word: sites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact site of the new station has not been decided, but it will be somewhere in the Union of South Africa, and the capital of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, is being given serious consideration. Since 1890 the Harvard Observatory has operated a branch station at Arequipa, Peru, for the purpose of studying stars and other celestial objects that never rise above the horizons of Northern countries. However, as cloudy weather handicapped the observation from Peru for a large part of each year, the high plateaus of South Africa were found to be better for continued work the year round...
...Chicago last week aldermen meditated on a resolution to purchase as a memorial the site where famed Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern that started the great fire...
Coach Brown said that no decision has been made as yet on the site of practice during the Spring recess. An invitation to train on another river has been received and is under consideration...
...movement to set up a monument and tablet appropriately inscribed to mark the site of the old Harvard boathouse, which was in constant use from 1869 until the opening of the present Newell boathouse, has been set in motion under the direction of C. A. Coolidge '81. Mr. Coolidge is making the design and had agreed to direct the work...
Hegeman-Harris, builders, of Boston and J. F. White, a Cambridge contracting company, started work on the site of the new buildings about a week ago, and according to the present rate of progress of leveling and excavating operations two weeks more will see the first foundation stones in place. Efforts are being concentrated at present on the site of the larger building, the foundations of which will be finished before work starts on the second part of the group. The exigencies of the grade make it desirable that dirt be available to fill in around the foundations...