Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feet apart in order to allow these great tows to pass through easily. As the Hudson at Poughkeepsie is 70 feet deep and has a large mud deposit, it is necessary to lower a large cassion with double sides. This box is 100 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 60 feet high, and weighted with gravel. Through holes in the top the mud is dredged out by a large machine, which lifts ten tons every five minutes. After the mud is dredged out the space is filled up by concrete, which hardens under the water. Upon this bottom stone piers...
...President Stiles to a professorship of ecclesiastical history in 1778. He held his professership till his death-in 1795-and after him it was held by Professor Kingsley from 1805 to 1817. There is abundant evidence that his interpretation of the field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath to say that this professorship was the first introduction of history into our curriculum: but I do not know that the earlier stages of its career have ever been traced...
...memory of one of that class-Glendower Evans. Evans had been an excellent student while in college, though he did not work for marks and was not among the highest in rank. He gave much of his time to reading, and few college men have had such a wide range of reading on graduation than he had. He entered the Law School and began to practice law in Boston, working also on law books and writing more or less on social subjects. His future was full of the promise of happiness and usefulness, and his early and unexpected death...
...library staff. Hence a special department has been instituted at Columbia College in New York, called the school of "Library Economy" which is under the direction of Melville Dewey, the secretary of the American Library Association. They have teachers specially provided for instruction, and they aim to secure a wide recognition of different library methods and principles by providing lectures during the year from some of the principal American librarians. The class is made up of both men and women, and I am told they find opportunities for their graduates easily, but mainly in narrow spheres...
Work for the base-ball cage at Princeton has been commenced. It is to be of wood with windows in the top and will be 150 feet long and 60 feet wide...