Word: stones
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year ago were so trained in passing, and especially passing when tackled that six men would assist in making one rush, before the ball was finally declared down. What our team needs to do is not to make a collection of brawn and muscle, of future blacksmiths and stone-crackers, but to cultivate the style and science of real foot-ball. We believe Mr. Brooks will work foot-ball for all it is worth, and that he will teach the team all he knows or can learn; but the style of Harvard foot-ball play must be radically changed before...
...building will have a frontage of eighty feet on Elm street, and will extend on High street to a depth of one hundred and twenty five feet. If the subscriptions warrant, it will be built of rough brown stone with trimmings of a lighter material, and will have three stories and a basement...
...planned to make a quadrangle of the library, Divinity Hall, and at some future date of a chapel which will be to the southeast of Divinity. The woods to the east will complete the square. The new library building is to be of red brick with brown sand stone trimmings, and will contain four lecture rooms, a stack which will hold 40,000 volumes, and a reading room with a large open fire place, thus adding much to the comfort of the readers. The building will cost about $40,000 when completed and will supply a want of which students...
...terraces and broad, asphalt walks. In front of the barracks a blue-coat with his musket on his shoulder is striding up and down, and a couple of brass howitzers standing on the terrace glisten in the sun. Hurrying by we stopped a moment in front of the handsome stone dry-dock, built in the presidency of the second Adams, and in which the "Pieter von Leninck" of the Red Star Line, was having her great sides scraped and painted. The party did not stop long to examine the "Pieter," but hurried on; turning to their right they passed...
...August 9th, 1818, Amos Davis, Quarter-Master General, wrote to the Honorable Council as follows: "A stone powder magazine has been built on Captain's Island in Cambridge; a brick wall inclosing the magazine will be finished in about twenty days. The building will then be in complete order for the reception of powder...