Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rate, and a great deal has been done since the first pouring of concrete, which took place last April. In all of the buildings but the library, all the structural concrete has been poured, and the construction work is now up to the roof. This structural concrete is the skeleton of the buildings. It is poured in a semi-liquid state into wooden forms, and is reinforced by steel rods. The foundation walls, piers, interior columns and floors are all made of this material. Up to the present 27,000 cubic yards of concrete and 2,600 tons of steel...
...reporters is as true as it is interesting. R. L. West '14 has given us a good deal of inside information on the training of debating teams to what he calls the "Harvard Habit of Winning Debates." But he has uncovered what we might name the Institute's family skeleton, since, from the behaviour of its present members, we judge that they are ashamed of the fact that such questions as the relative merits of Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls. The article on Princeton Customs, by Mr. Hunter of the Nassau Literary Magazine, is interesting enough...
...exterior of the building, the brick and stone work has reached third-floor height, while some parts of the skeleton construction of the interior are even higher. All of the twenty-eight Corinthian columns and capitals have been set, four in each of the four pavilions and twelve across the front of the building. The capitals are being carved in place with the use of plaster models and it is hoped to expedite this work, which is now being done by hand, by the installation of an air compressor, which is expected shortly. The stone-work on the gable...
...following valuable specimens have been purchased by the Museum from R. Ward; adult male and female California elephant seals; adult male, with mounted skeleton, of pigmy hippopotamus from Mauwa River, Liberia; wild male Bengal tiger from Kuch Behar, northeastern India...