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...plans provide for a building of brick with stone basement and trimmings, 190 feet long, and four stories high, with a central pavalion of an additional story. The location will be on the corner of High and Elm streets, diagonally across from the Peabody Museum. The building will face East toward West Divinity. In front will be an open space, with a driveway running through. Opening on this will be three entrances of handsomely decorated stone...
Best general references: J. A. Rus, How the Other Half Lives; Octavia +++ Homes of the London Poor; Chas. Booth, Labor and Life in the East of London; J. B. Russel. Life in One Room; No. Am. Rev. LXXIV. 464-180 (April 1852); Scribner's, XI. 676-721 (July, 1892); Forum. V. 207-215. (April, 1887) Nichol, Statistics of Glasgow...
Suppose now that we take east and west as half way between north and south, then the equator passes through the two former points. In speaking of the east and west one may mean of the sky or earth, which is inaccurate. So in connection with the stars we should speak of the east as the "preceding" direction and the west as the "following...
...building faces East, and highly polished oak doors set off the front porch, in the centre of which "Non Ministrari sed Ministrare" is laid in tessello ted marble. All the inner doors, floors, and window sashes are made of soft yellow pine, which is capable of a very high polish. The walls and ceilings are glazed with a hard, white, glossy finish. The sun parlors are the principal features of the building, being so constructed as to admit the sunlight during the whole...
...announced that a new dormitory to cost $150,000 is to be built at once, with special reference to the accommodation of students of small means. It is to be placed on the east side of Divinity avenue north of the Divinity Library, and will face west. This great gift is anonymous...