Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special points of interest will be quarries in the faulted lava beds, a portion of the great fault here crossing the valley with a throw of about 3,000 feet; further the bed of ashes and lava blocks between Meriden and Berlin, and Chauncey Peak, whence a general view of the region may be obtained...
...view of the great crowds expected at the Harvard-Princeton game and the small railroad facilities afforded at Princeton, the Pennsylvania railroad started on Monday to build extra sidings, which when finished will, together with the main track and the siding south of the station, make room for about 70 cars and 7 engines. The new sidings are being built at the curve west of the Brokaw Field and are to be three in number, two east and one west of the main track. About 80 laborers are at work, and it is expected that the improvements will be completed...
...giving exhibitions far away from Cambridge, it has been urged that the clubs have given to the public at large a distorted view of academic life. What has been called "the butterfly side," the apparently careless, frivolous part of college life is said to be brought into prominence, while at so great a distance, the earnest, scholarly side is entirely lost from sight...
...stairways. There will be accommodations for forty-four boys in twenty-two suites, each extending the full depth of the building, and comprising a 15x12 foot study and two bedrooms 11x81/2 feet. All studies will be at the front of the building, facing the west and commanding the view across the school grounds. There will be another suite for the resident instructor, and still another which will de used as a social room. The interior finish will be of whitewood...
...glory for himself instead of for his college, and his fellows have no use for him. What the critic deems to be preference for the body over the mind is in no small measure preference for collective aims over individual ones. It may be a short-sighted view of the matter to think of the high stand man as working for himself, and the athlete as working for his college. Yet it is one which contains a large element of truth; and the honor paid to college athletics is based on a healthful recognition of this half truth which...