Word: central
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...central buildings of the university, now partly under construction after designs by the Boston architects, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the successors of Richardson, are to stand in the center of the broad plain occupying the greater part of the tract. The purpose of the plan, so far as represented, is: first, to provide for convenient and economical use, by large numbers, of the means of research and instruction to be offered in the central buildings; second, to provide in the arrangements devised for this purpose an outward character, suitable to the climate of the locality that will serve to foster...
...central rubber pen holder is so constructed that the point of the pen is on a line with the centre or axis of the holder, the same as a stylographic...
...central rubber pen holder is so constructed that the point of the pen is on a line with the centre or axis of the holder, the same as a stylographic...
...water in the tank stood about twenty-eight inches high, and seemed to flow with perfect freedom around the central partitions. As a whole the tank promises to be entirely successful and it is earnestly hoped that the crews will derive all the advantages from it which all the men in college expect them...
...these requisites are present in the Medea, which is also comparatively free from the digressions which often mar the work of Euripides. The grouping of the actors on the stage assisted the unity of the piece by directing the attention to the central figure. The plot itself was almost bodily borrowed from the piece of Neophron, but great skill is shown in leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman...