Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the April recess a drinking fountain was built in the main hallway of the Union towards the Periodical Room. The fountain is a memorial to Thomas Simms Bettens '74 and bears the following inscriptions: "He taught the classics with distinction for twenty-eight years in a secondary school in New York City and won the respect and affection of his pupils by his cheerful patience, justice, and hopeful sympathy. He was simple in his desires, sincere and unaffected in friendship, modest in all relations. This fountain is the gift of his boys, including graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton...
...centres, our cities have become little else. Even the amusements that are there are just a way of making money, or of spending it. Naturally, their politics have fallen under the same head. Graft is not a product but a corrupter of politics. And as to the source and fountain head of civic virtue, or the lack of it--the people! Homes, which should make the real city--let the last Tenement House Commission speak...
...finished by the end of November. The mason-work of the fence, which extends from the Fogg Museum along Broadway to Robinson Hall, is now finished, but the iron-work will not be put in until the masonry of the gateway is built. Between the openings a drinking fountain in the form of a lion's head over a stone basin will be built. With the exception of this fountain, there will be no carving or elaborate decoration...
...Goose-girl," by E. B. Sheldon '08;" Sea Vespers," by H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06; "A Son in Harvard," by J. L. Price '07; "Night Song," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "The Simple Life Beyond," by J. H. Breck '07," "The Original Way," by B. Powers '07; "The Fountain of Youth," by H. W. Bell...
...semi-circular masonry fence, extending about 25 feet into the Yard, will be broken by two gateways giving upon the paths leading south past Seven and west between Fogg Museum and Appleton Chapel, respectively. Between the gateways will be a niche in which will be installed a drinking fountain...