Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should be found. The most common way is loss of the first few minutes of the examination. But this mode of punishment makes suffer an entire room full of men, since one cannot settle down to work while even a slight amount of bustle or confusion is going on around him. Consequently we hope that every one who has not already handed in blue books will do so before the day set for his individual examinations...
...water in the tank stood about twenty-eight inches high, and seemed to flow with perfect freedom around the central partitions. As a whole the tank promises to be entirely successful and it is earnestly hoped that the crews will derive all the advantages from it which all the men in college expect them...
...sixty-six; it has desk-room for two hundred and thirty-two readers and a window area of one thousand and twenty-five square feet to a floor area of six thousand six hundred and twelve square feet, thus being plentifully supplied with light during the day time. All around the reading-room are book-cases sufficient to contain a reference library of fourteen thousand six hundred volumes...
...cage itself is in good condition. Captain Willard has caused to be hung around the wire sides of the cage a thick cotton cloth. The benefits derived are two-fold. The light thereby is kept within the cage, an essential factor in afternoon practice. In addition, this seclusion admits of closer application to duties, since the presence of a large crowd of commenters is sure to distract the attention of the candidates...
...objections raised then are now invalid. Since that time a well-organized and responsible electric light company has established itself in Cambridge, and electric lights have almost entirely superseded gas in the various stores around the college. The cost of putting electric lights in the library would be comparatively slight-in fact, insignificant in comparison to what it would have cost three years ago. We have heard that the corporation do not wish to put electric lights in the library until they have money enough to light the yard and law school library at the same time. There...