Word: stone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Colorado College, located at Colorado Springs, Col., has had seventy students in attendance during 1877. One half of them studied the Classics. Three professors and one tutor are giving instruction. A fine stone building is being erected on the college grounds, at the base of Pike's Peak, the finest campus in the country. The elevation of the location, not the building, is six thousand feet above the sea. Pike's Peak is over fourteen thousand feet high. Professor Kerr, the professor of geology, has recently discovered in the Garden of the Gods, within sight of the college grounds, some...
...accord, - they had to use another horse to pull him up again. The prospect looked gloomy, but I unharnessed him, and with my aunt's help drew the carriage back out of the way; then I got a rail from the fence, and, using a large stone as a fulcrum, I began to pry him up according to the most approved rules of Goodeve's mechanics. At the same time my aunt inserted the point of her parasol in a tender spot between his ribs, and we both called loudly on Hercules to aid us. Slowly and painfully the horse...
...dormitory at Brown College is to be built by Messrs. Stone and Carpenter. Miss Juliet Capulet's opinion as to the unimportance of names is certainly not borne out by the particular significance of these...
...idea of this society originated among some of the instructors, and has met with the hearty approval of all that have been informed of it. Such a society would, if kept up, be the foundation-stone of what might, in a few years, prove of immense value to all students of History, in or out of college. The chief support now must come from the present Junior and Sophomore classes, for, as it will take some three or four months to organize it, '78 cannot be expected to lend much assistance, though a small gift from the graduating class would...
...sunlight as they dip the water, and the regular "swash, swash," of the stroke floats down the river. It was high tide, and from the balcony I could see the boat glide past the piles and through the bridge, shoot on past the gas-house and the upper stone-works, turn with the river to the left, then to the right, and finally stop off the Winchester estate, with its groves and lawns and picturesque boat-house...