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...will be divided by a boulevard running from the south to the north entrance. The arcade is designed to permit communication between the buildings without exposure to the weather. The main entrance to the court is through a memorial arch, which is to have a frieze running around the top, illustrating the progress of California. On the right and left of the arch are two story buildings-one containing the natural history collection and the other the library. When additional buildings shall be found necessary they will be built around and outside the present college. It is on this larger...
...With united vigor they hurled themselves against the advancing phalanx. But in vain! On and on it moved until the bottom of the stone steps leading to Medical Hall had been reached. Here the hottest fighting of the day was done. The college men collected their forces at the top of the embankment and charged from above, creating great slaughter among medical hats...
...through easily. As the Hudson at Poughkeepsie is 70 feet deep and has a large mud deposit, it is necessary to lower a large cassion with double sides. This box is 100 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 60 feet high, and weighted with gravel. Through holes in the top the mud is dredged out by a large machine, which lifts ten tons every five minutes. After the mud is dredged out the space is filled up by concrete, which hardens under the water. Upon this bottom stone piers 30 feet high are built, and above these steel piers...
...astronomical observatory at Bates College will be connected by telegraph with the observatories at Harvard, Washington, Mt. Hamilton, Cal., and Greenwich, England. The telescope will be fifteen feet long with a twelve-inch aperture, and will be placed in a building eighty feet long on the top of Mt. David which is 400 feet high...
...flag with their class numerals on it, the night of the Glee Club concert. The sophomores stand watch and try and prevent this, but the freshmen often succeed. The freshmen cannot carry canes until after Feb. 22d, when they appear with canes about six inches in diameter at the top and from three to four at the base. These are called bangers and are carried by means of a leathern handle. The class generally marches in procession with a band of music. After the second base ball game with the Harvard freshmen, if the Yale team wins, the whole class...