Word: wide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...house removed to the east side of the main building and placed in line with it. A piazza of the same width as that of the main building but with no roof has been built in front of the ell and another float 47 feet long by 20 wide, placed. Thus the eights will have a float of their own and the difficulty of carrying the shells through the crowded main building which has been experienced heretofore, overcome...
...piazza ten feet wide has been built between the ell and the main building extending round behind it and for a short distance along the western side in order to form a porch in front of the side door. Two doors will open on this piazza from the back of the main building. Between the buildings the piazza is left open but at the side and in the rear is roofed over...
...without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest subject interesting by his skilful and original way of present-it. To his originality many scholars widely scattered through the land can bear testimony, recalling that it was he who first showed them that there were things to be learned which were not set down in any book,- that he initiated them, in fact, into modern methods of individual research and taught them to seek the truth...
Though he published little (very little for a man of such wide and varied learning) under his own name, he always put his best scholarship at the disposal of his friends. One of the best instances is the work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...
...cage will be large enough to permit of throw from home plate to second and to give practice in base running. It will be 150 feet long by 60 wide and 30 hight in the centre. The frame will be entirely of steel filled in with bricks to a distance of five feet above the ground, the remainder being plastered on the outside and sheathed within. Netting will be hung at a distance of eighteen inches from the wall on the inside. In winter the cage will not only accommodate the baseball candidates but will also serve for the cricket...