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...portable house, to be used by the Harvard astronomical party in its South American expedition is built of heavy paper and canvas, sheets being stretched upon a frame of pine scantling three-quarters of an inch wide and half an inch thick. It is built in small sections, so that it can be easily and cheaply transported. The building when ready for occupancy is 18x22 feet. The top is surmounted by a galvanized iron cupola, which is made in movable sections. The building is divided into three rooms, is lighted by six large windows, and has two entrances...
...times when the institutions and customs of our University were totally different from what they are today. It tells how sixty years ago college men enjoyed few of the comforts we enjoy to-day. There were few rooms whose floors were covered with carpets. Their furniture consisted of a pine bed, a washstand and a few coarse chairs. Men had to rise for a 6 o'clock chapel, from which no cuts were allowed. They had to attend two recitations before they ate breakfast, consisting of folls and coffee. The mornings were spent at recitation till half-past twelve, when...
...Pine Ridge Agency D T Dec 2 1887 Professor of Harvard College...
During July a violent thunder-storm demolished the old pine on the Dartmouth campus, which has been a prominent feature in class day exercises at that college...
...candidates for the Yale and Princeton nines will go into training immediately after the Christmas vacation. O'Rourke of the New York's will take charge of the Yale pine and Ferguson of the Philadelphia's will do the same for the Princeton nine...