Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...terrace occupying the highest point of land of the new site for the college buildings. About it are to be grouped in a rectangular court the minor buildings, pierced by the southern, eastern and western approaches, all on the axial lines of the building, which is to face south. Access to the southern or principal facade will be gained from One Hundred and Sixteenth street by a flight of steps 325 feet wide, surmounted by granite posts and an iron grille leading to a subordinate terrace, and thence by a flight of twenty steps 140 feet wide to the main...
...motive of the southern portico will be echoed on the eastern, western and northern ends of the cross by means of deep pilasters, and the internal angles will be adorned with richly-molded classic windows with consoles. Bronze doors in the centre of the portico will give access through a lofty marble portal to the main vestibule, paved with marble slabs, and whose walls will be decorated with marble pilasters, which will support a richly-paneled and ornamented flat ceiling. Marble doorways will lead thence to the left and right, to the president's room and to the offices. Directly...
...beginning of the war we find Japan ready to carry on a rapid campaign. Her men have been drilled in European and American methods. She has a military history that surprises the students who only lately have had access to her literature. The Chinese, on the other hand, have not been looking forward to war. Her people are traders and merchants, not soldiers. There is no system in the army, and the officers are thoroughly corrupt. The greater part of the funds appropriated for modern fortifications and ordnance has gone into the pockets of the mandarins. The outcome was almost...
...facilities for studying the manuscripts in the libraries of Jerusalem, Cairo, Mt. Athos, and Constantinople are very good. The libraries contain printed catalogues of the old manuscripts in them and the custodians allow explorers free access to the manuscripts. In addition to this the books are properly housed. So it is seen that the facilities for research in the East are fully as good as in the West; there are only three of the collections at Cambridge, England, which are properly catalogued and most of the manuscripts in America are so little known as to be of little...
There will be improvement about the entrances this year. Many of the supports have been taken away from under the railway bridge so that access to the entrance will be much freer. And then, instead of one gate to serve as the entrance, there will this year be three. The arrangements for getting to the different sides and ends when once inside the grounds will be practically the same as last year...