Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trustees of the Andover Theological Seminary have purchased 200,000 square feet of land from the Charles Eliot Norton estate in Cambridge and expect to erect upon this tract at least one large building for the use of the seminary. The land adjoins the property of the Harvard Divinity School and extends eastward toward Francis avenue, which will be extended to afford ready access to the new buildings of the seminary. Architects have already been employed to draw plans for one large hall, and it is expected that work on this building will proceed without delay. The land secured...
...look at the Forest Service, which is handling a tract of country greater than all the Atlantic States put together. A long list of our greatest industries are dependent on the preservation of our forests. We use more wood than any other nation in the world. Many young men are needed to take hold of this question and a great opportunity is open to a man who wants his life to count for something. To enter forestry a man needs to be perfectly sound, capable of hard work, both with his hands and head, and needs a long training...
Major Higginson has devoted his life to the interests of Boston and to Harvard. The first great gift that he gave to the University was a vast tract of land, which he wished to be named Soldiers Field in honor of those who had died for the Union during the Civil War. It was to be a place where all Harvard men could enjoy outdoor sports. In the autumn of 1899 he gave $150,000 to build a clubhouse which should "bear no name forever except that of our University." Plans for the building were drawn up by McKim, Mead...
Professor G. A. Reisner '89 has been chosen to an important post in Egypt. This is the charge of the excavations that are now being carried on above the new Assouan dam. A large tract of country is soon to be inundated by a raise in the level of the dam, and it is the intention of the Egyptian government to have this territory thoroughly explored for archacological remains before it is covered with water. With several trained assistants and a large force of workmen Professor Reisner entered on his work in September last, and in the first month...
...plan has recently been developed by men interested in farming for the founding of an ideal farm to be managed by members of the University. A corporation or stock company will probably be formed, the funds of which will be raised by subscription. If possible a large tract of land, situated on a river and within easy reach of a city, will be secured and divided into special lots, the head of each department superintending a particular field of industry. The land, however, will be held in common, and, when occasion demands, the work will be done in common. Such...