Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...uniform quadrangle are the chapel, the hall, the library, and the students' rooms. There is usually a back quadrangle or garden. Some of these are very large and are very beautifully kept. The buildings themselves are of great size and of the most substantial and enduring construction. So solid, and eternal, and venerable do they look that one might fancy that they were born with the earth...
...pile. This strain bearing upon the brace caused it to force the pile out from its position and allowed the whole structure to fall. One of the men at the boat house dug down into the soft mud with his hands along the pile until he reached a more solid foundation into which the pile was driven but little more than three inches...
...which in turn rested on a transverse beam. This beam rested on the top of a strong pile, which was driven into the soft, muddy bottom of the river. In the first place the pile upon which the whole structure rested was never driven in until it struck a solid foundation, but was merely inserted in holes dug in the mud for the purpose. Upon this pile rested a transverse beam, from which the pillars reached to the upper platform. A short distance to the west this beam was spliced. The main pillar which supported the weight above...
...Lane requests that his sections in Solid Geometry be prepared for today's recitation on propositions 16, 17. 18 and 19 of the VI Book...
...bred men have done their share in performing the only really effective work that is being done at all-as it seems to some-to improve the condition of mechanics and handicraftsmen, and in placing them in their right relation to the social body, and establishing this relation on solid foundations. And how ? By inculcating broad and full views of life ; by connecting intelligence with mechanical pursuits and thereby both dignifying them and informing them with a genuine interest...