Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been decided by the Trustees of Columbia College to purchase the tract of land on the plateau between Morningside Park and Amsterdam Avenue and the lines of One Hundred and Sixteenth and One Hundred and Twentieth Streets. The trustees have a refusal of the property until May 1, at a price which is satisfactory to them. They have also had submitted to them an offer of the two blocks between One Hundred and Twentieth ond One Hundred and Twenty-second Streets adjoining, which will carry the grounds, if taken, to the turn in Morning-side Avenue which marks the northern...
...will leave only the two blocks between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Sixteenth Streets of the plateau between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Park undisposed of. The remainder will be taken up by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which has the Leake and Watt's Orphan Asylum tract, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth Streets, and by St. Luke's Hospital, which last week purchased the block between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Streets. The property consists of a great ledge which will afford excellent foundations for the most massive...
There is a great desire at Brown to have a new athletic field and though a strong effort has been made to find suitable laud, nothing can secured for less than $40,000 or $50,000. The Metcalf lot belonging to the college, and a tract of land known as Adelaide Park have been considered. There is no doubt that, could the land be found, the funds could easily be raised to fit it up. At the last meeting of the athletic committee it was voted to appoint from the executive committee of each athletic association...
...Hale closed his lecture by recommending the Total Abstinence League to invite Professor James to deliver a lecture before them on the physiological effects of drinking. He said that such a lecture, if published, would constitute the best tract on temperance written for many years...
...Charles K. Landis has presented to the University of Pennsylvania a tract of five acres of ground near Sea Isle City, N. J. He proposes to erect a marine aquarium there which will be under the direct charge of the University Biological department...