Word: towards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conference committee at Princeton have sent in their resignation owing to a lack of consideration for a request for leniency toward several sophomores...
...freshmen had no representative present, it was decided to postpone definite action until this evening. A committee of four was appointed to obtain estimates for uniforms and torches, and a committee of one to communicate with the Republican state committee in regard to music. Steps will soon be taken toward the formation of a student drum corps. Blue books will be put at convenient places for the signatures of those men who intend to take part in the procession...
...number of Harvard men, anxious to arouse a greater interest in foot ball among the preparatory schools in Boston and its vicinity and thus secure better candidates for the college team, have taken an important step toward this end. A committee consisting of J. H. Sears (chairman), A. P. Butler, F. C. Woodman, C. A. Porter, F. S. Fiske, and R. S. Hale (secretary) have donated a cup, to be called the Boston School football Challenge Cup. The conditions governing the cup provide that schools within fifteen miles of Boston, and such others as the committee may admit...
...changes. The Chittenden Memorial Library is rapidly approaching completion, while the foundations of the new recitation building, money for which has been given by an unknown friend of the university, have been laid. Its architecture is a mixture of Romanesque and Arabesque happily blended. That part of the building toward the corner of College and Chapel streets, near the site of the historic "fence," is to be partly circular in form and to have twelve sides. The stone work above the entrance arches will be magnificent. The arches are to be supported by polished marble pillars...
...additions to the Agassiz and Peabody Museums, for which the foundations were laid before the close of last term, have been pushed forward so rapidly during the summer that they are now almost ready for roofing. This makes a great advance toward the contemplated union of the two buildings, though the missing corner will probably not be supplied for several years. The extension of the Peabody Museum is about forty feet in depth, and will be devoted mainly to exhibition rooms. The addition to the Agassiz Museum is 110 feet long, and will be used for botany, geology, and physical...