Word: watering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...story brick building containing a gymnasium, swimming pool, and two squash ball courts for the use of the tenants of Dunster Hall and Little's Block will be erected before next September on Holyoke street behind Dunster Hall. A well is now being bored on the lot to supply water for Dunster, Little's and the new swimming pool. As soon as this work is completed the new building will be begun. It is to be L-shaped and will extend across the south end of the lot and have a ninety foot front on Holyoke street. The gymnasium...
...number of original drawings by masters of the old English water-color school are now on view at the Fogg Museum. The artists represented are: Samuel Prout, David Cox, Peter DeWint, Henry Edridge, Thomas Girtin, Paul Sanby and John Varley. These are all characteristic examples, and serve to show what were the artistic ideals, and the technical methods, which prevailed in the English School of the early part of the century now closing. While more or less conventional in both conception and treatment, these works are generally well composed and exhibit the skill in the use of pure water-color...
...roadway will from one of the long sides. Two hockey rinks, each 125 by 58 feet, will be fenced off at the east end and the remaining space, 284 by 125 feet, will be left open. The rink is to be flooded to the depth of one foot with water supplied from a fire faucet in the boat house. A small admission fee will be charged and season tickets will be issued. Mr. D. L. Turner, instructor in the Lawrence Scientific School, planned the rink and is superintending its construction...
Manila Bay is a fine harbor, its only fault being that the entrance is too wide to protect vessels from the typhoons. To remedy this the Spanish government began the construction of a break water, but through mismanagement of funds little had been accomplished. The climate is by no means so bad as is imagined. fifteen or twenty years of American rule should make Manila the greatest city of the East...
Last night at Appleton Chapel, Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham of New Bedford, preached from the texts "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread," and "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." The first shows the temptation every man has to show his own power; the second, that true power lies not in its mere possession, but in the ability to impart it to others...