Word: towers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell is to have a new library which will cost $250,000 and will be one of the finest in the country. It will be capable of containing 400,000 volumes. The architecture will be plain and dignified, and the most imposing feature will be a high tower at one corner, in which will be placed a large clock and the college chimes...
...said that $200,000 will be given for Yale's new building which is to stand on the site of the "fence," The structure will be two stories high, and will have a costly porch with a tower on each side of the main entrance...
...Columbia College buildings in the coming summer. The changes are to be made under the direction of Charles C. Haight, a New York architect. The plans include an extension of the School of Mines building so that it will be four stories high with a basement. A tower will occupy the space of 45x60 feet on the corner of Fourth avenue and 49th street. A new lecture hall 40x60 feet is to be built on the site at present occupied by the president's house. It is not yet fully decided whether the new lecture hall shall be constructed separately...
...been the very serious illness of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Mr. Gilbert has finished the libretto. The composer has taken it with him to the south of France, and has already done the finale to the first act. The scene of the new opera will be laid in the Tower of London, and the period will be the time of Henry VIII...
...yield Him our best room, our best efforts, and He will inspire us with lofty aims and steadfast courage. Mr. William L. Whitney sang "Tears of grief, shame and anguish," from Spohr's "Calvary," and the choir sang the "Chorus of the Sons of Japhet," from Rubinstein's "Tower of Babel...