Word: wide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the three years and a half that Professor Whiting was at the University of California he formed a wide circle of aquaintances. He was a man of kind-hearted, generous disposition and a very zealous student in his profession...
...this time it is in track athletics, the branch of sports in which Harvard has always been the strongest. Little can be said to excuse the defeat. It was generally conceded that Yale had the best chance to win, but no one expected that it would be by so wide a margin, and that, too, on our own grounds. The Yale team proved beyond any question that they were stronger than Harvard's and besides winning about all the doubtful events, also took several in which it seemed reasonably sure that Harvard would be victorious...
...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 terrace, and thence by a flight of twenty steps 140 feet wide to the main terrace, from which the library building will rise. The eastern and western approaches will also be reached by successive terraces, but narrower...
...library building itself will be in the classic style, designed in the form of a Greek cross and surmounted by a dome. At the southern end of the cross and facing the main entrance to the university a flight of twenty-six steps 86 feet wide will rise to a portico of ten Ionic columns, 35 feet high, which will form the main entrance to the structure. This portico will be surmounted by a panel extending its entire length and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate of the main portico which will be 12 feet above the terrace, will...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 7. - Yale had an easy victory this afternoon over Lafayette. Trudeau kept the hits wide apart, except in the sixth inning, when two singles and a three-bagger yielded an earned run, but fine team work by Yale prevented more than a single run being scored by the visitors. Clarke was pounded heavily and his fielders threw poorly. The score...