Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which the structure rested had slipped from its original upright position and had gradually acquired a slant of some twenty degrees some time since. A knotch was cut in the side of the pile about three inches deep and in this an upright brace was fixed upon which the sleeper running back into the boat house rested. This sleeper did not extend as far out as the pile, but was mortised into the tranverse beam extending along the front of the platform which supported the lower platform and the pillar running up the upper platform. This pillar, however, patched...
...gave away. These conditions and several theories of the direct cause of the accident present themselves. In the first place the gradual sinking of the pile into the soft mud may have left the whole weight of the balconies resting on this spliced and patched sleeper. Of course when the unusual strain came the structure gave way at its weakest point. On the other hand, it is possible that the pile remained in its original position and that the tremendous weight bearing on a point cut by several holes simply crushed the rotten wood, letting down the upper balcony first...
...Jacob Sleeper, who is the donor of its new buildings to the Boston University, was formerly an overseer of Harvard...
...friend of Boston University has recently offered to be one of ten to add $500,000 to the endowment, or to give one-tenth of the sum, however raised. The new Jacob Sleeper Hall of Boston University will be occupied by the College of Liberal Arts after the Thanks - giving recess...