Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These dormitories appear to be of two types--the older, which lie nearer the center of the university site, and the newer type, at a considerably greater distance. I shall describe first a building of the former type. The rooms are usually about ten by six feet in size, and eight feet high. In the walls there are sockets which indicate that they once supported some sort of projections or shelves. These no doubt were used as auxiliary sleeping quarters. Thus four students must have been accommodated in one of these tiny rooms. In addition there were similar rooms, without...
Even this doubtful compliment cannot be paid to Harvard Hall. The building which originally stood on the site was burned. The one of today assumed its present aspect in 1870. The architects in this case must have left stairways entirely out of their consideration but compromised with the authorities on a single flight just three and a half feet wide...
Wonders will never cease! One of our peons, while digging for potsherds on the outskirts of the university site the other day, suddenly felt the ground give way beneath him; and before he knew it, he found himself in a large hollow space at some depth underground. His shouts attracted fellow-workmen, who helped him out with a rope and brought Senor Alvarotez, Leon Cavallo, and myself to the scene of the discovery. With torches and shovels we descended into the opening and proceeded to explore...
...search of the ruins toward the middle of the university site has unearthed what was once an imposing building of white granite. This discovery aroused our interest at once, because the other buildings thus far uncovered have almost invariably been of a dark reddish material, apparently a sort of brick. This edifice remains fairly intact, and within it we were fortunate enough to find an immense collection of records of every imaginable sort. With his usual sagacity, Senor Alvarotz has deduced the theory that this was the administration building...
...letter today concerns the popular Inca pastime of Rolo, which our specialists have just discovered. At the base of the mountain we came upon a huge pile of rocks stacked haphazard at the foot of a broad ramp which led up the slope to the site of the university. We were long in a quandary about their significance, but by means of various records unearthed in the city above, or cut in the rocky faces of the cliff (details of which I must spare you), Senor Alvarotez has deduced this astonishing explanation...