Word: south
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when no one denied that a tariff was a tax. He considered briefly the causes which led to the revenue tariff of 1847, and described the wonderful prosperity which the country enjoyed in the decade which followed. He declared that notwithstanding the incubus of the industrial condition of the south the country has never had greater material properity than during the year between...
...been found necessary to remodel the dark room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The sun, beating on the south side of the building, raises the temperature of the dark room to such an extent as to cause a variation in the length of light waves, thus interfering with experiments...
...massive simplicity. It is built of Georgetown gueiss rock, trimmed with Ohio sandstone. The building consists of a main portion, five stories in height, with wings on either side rising four stories. The architicture of the structure is modernized Romanesque. An arcade corridor extends from the north to the south end of the lower floor of the buildidg and the areade entrance is surmounted with a marble statue of the Saviour. On either side of the main entrance are the two receiving parlors. For one of these Bishop Keane, the rector, has already received a magnificent painting of Pope...
...varsity grounds are being greatly enlarged. The fence on the south side of the field is moved out some thirty or forty feet, and the hollow between the tracks and the north fence is being filled in. When the improvements are completed the ground will be large enough for two football fields or two diamonds...
...south end of the grounds laid out for the game is a large grandstand, while along each side benches are to be built extending from the grand-stand to the other end of the field. Behind the goal posts at the north end of the field is the only place reserved for coaches and carriages...