Word: western
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Greece, was held at Wesleyan University last week. There are twenty-three colleges which cooperate in the expenses of this school, and twelve of them were represented. The delegates were: Professors Seymour and Perrin of Yale, Goodwin and White of Harvard, Sloan of Princeton, Hale of Chicago, Fuller of Western Reserve, Fernald of Williams, Sterrell of Amherst, Wheeler of University of Vermont, Poland of Brown, Van Benschoten of Wesleyan, and Miss Slater of Mount Holyoke. Reports were made from the directors of the school at Athens, showing the work that had been done the past year, and it was decided...
...which President Low has made himself responsible, will be erected in the centre of a terrace occupying the highest point of land of the new site for the college buildings. About it are to be grouped in a rectangular court the minor buildings, pierced by the southern, eastern and western approaches, all on the axial lines of the building, which is to face south. Access to the southern or principal facade will be gained from One Hundred and Sixteenth street by a flight of steps 325 feet wide, surmounted by granite posts and an iron grille leading to a subordinate...
...motive of the southern portico will be echoed on the eastern, western and northern ends of the cross by means of deep pilasters, and the internal angles will be adorned with richly-molded classic windows with consoles. Bronze doors in the centre of the portico will give access through a lofty marble portal to the main vestibule, paved with marble slabs, and whose walls will be decorated with marble pilasters, which will support a richly-paneled and ornamented flat ceiling. Marble doorways will lead thence to the left and right, to the president's room and to the offices. Directly...
...northern arm of the library is to be set apart for the law library, the western for the administration, the eastern for the Avery Architectural Library, while the southern is to be occupied by the vestibule and adjoining chambers before mentioned. On the second story, which will be approached by the staircases at the four angles of the building, the gallery above referred to will perform the same service as the ambulatory below, and connect the trustees' room and the president's private room on the south, and book stacks containing special libraries and seminary rooms on the east, west...
...shot man; Merwin, mile walker; Torrey, low hurdler; Dyer, high hurdler; Bradley, half-mile runner; Barnes, sprinter; Woolsey and Dozier, broad jumpers, the latter being also a wheelman. Their contests arranged for are Princeton, May 11; U. of P., May 18; Mott Haven games, New York, May 25; Western Intercollegiate, Chicago, June 1; U. of Mich., June 18; and Denver A. C., June...