Word: stones
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...erected for the benefit of spectators. The hall itself which is on the second floor will be fitted with the latest and most approved gymnastic apparatus. Down stairs will be the swimming and rowing tanks and the baths. The sides of the swimming tanks have been built and broken stone is now being laid for the concrete bottom. The building will be lighted throughout with electric lights and the engine which will furnish power for the dynamo and also for the elevator will be soon put in position. A novel ventilating arrangement is provided consisting of brick tower twenty feet...
...whole structure, since the mountain regions give the main clues to the great geological movements. They represent the tracts of country which have been formed the longest, parts of them having always remained above water. The sediment washed by the sea from these protruding tracts has formed lime-stone and sand stone about their edges and the strata of these rocks is therefore much thicker here than in regions like the Mississippi basin which have been often submerged. One of the great theories of mountain formation takes these sedimentary rocks and their overloading of the earth's crust...
...dormitory nearly completed at Yale is 160 feet long and 46 feet wide. It is four stories high with a steep gable roof with dormer windows. It is built of rough-faced Longmeadow sand-stone and its general appearance is very much like Durfee Hall. Three entrances open on the campus and 26 double rooms and 22 single rooms are to be the accommodations. It will cost about...
...year, 1224 photographs have been taken. The thirteen-inch equatorial - which is the largest refracting telescope in the southern hemisphere - was also mounted and, although as yet no photographs have been taken with it, the expectation is that great results in that line, will eventually be attained. A stone residence has been built for the observers, at considerable expense. The expedition has been received very kindly by the people there and Mr. Mac Cord, superintendent of the Mollendo Railway, offered them the use of his home during the erection of the stone-house. Through the assistance of the American Minister...
...Stone made the closing argument for Harvard. In considering the pension legislation, he argued that it was unjust for the United States to neglect the very men who had helped to unite them. With regard to Southern elections, the Republican party has appealed to more prejudices and championed no cause, butis it right that four million voters should not be allowed to vote for the men who represent them? The injustice exists and there must be some remedy. In connection with civil service reform, what has been the result while Cleveland was president? He had made more changes than...