Word: towers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...various rooms with the roof and all vapors will find an easy exit. The building will be heated by steam from the college heating apparatus, but the steam pipes will not be arranged as radiators but will encircle the walls of each room. A large room in the tower is to be used as a technical library and will contain all the standard works. The general store-room for the apparatus is in the basement and is connected with the laboratories by a "lift" No pains have been spared in the work and the building when finished will...
...them are built with alternate courses of red and white stone and have domes which contain the tombs. There are no seats in them and the worshipper is obliged to take off his shoes upon entering. The minaret is invariably a feature of a mosque, and is a tall tower from whose gallery the priest summons to prayer. The chief mode of conveyance is the donkey, and the city is full of these strong little beasts, posted at every corner in charge of boys. The population of the city is about 400,000, and the native part is made...
...your space for the purpose of recording the discovery of an autograph of John Harvard, and also of his brother Thomas, of whom I believe no other writing has been found. The brothers, as is known, held certain property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London. Communications were, therefore, opened with the present authorities of the Hospital, by whom they were very kindly received, and a thorough search of the very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine's. The result...
...only writing of his hitherto known is that preserved in a record deposited in the registry of the University of Cambridge, consisting of two autograph signatures; the other that he and his brother Thomas jointly held certain property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London...
...name has hitherto been unknown, but this work has already received high praise from the Boston press, and deserves to win no small share of recognition. Perhaps the best of the etchings-certainly the most delicate and expressive one-is that of the old church-yard with the low tower of Christ Church amid the trees. It is full of the beauful air of repose which has endeared Gray's "Elegy" to the world. At the left of the picture is a separate scrap showing the sunny vine- covered side of Massachusetts Hall. "Cambridge on the Charles" is a wide...