Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following may be a matter that will bear being brought to notice in your columns. Though the usual hour of closing the Gore Hall reading room is 10 p. m., it is set back to 5 on Sundays. Now it happens that on that particuler day the dinner hour at Memorial Hall is 5.30 instead of 5. This leaves half an hour in which students not rooming close to the two halls and having to use both are forced to wander aimlessly about. The Fogg Museum doors are closed at the same hour (5 o'clock), and recourse...
...various systems of muscles of the human body,- the systems on the back: the head and shoulders, the thigh, and the calf muscles-those in front: the foot, the shin, thigh, abdomen and chest,- and the functions of these systems and their methods of action together with the best means of exercising them, were then shown by means of the three models...
...Moselle, like the Seine, meanders through a flat upland. The Moselle offers a good example of a river cutting itself off by drilling through a narrow headland. Its tributaries have eaten their way back and have drawn into the Moselle waters which formerly flowed into the Meuse...
...insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth and Coleridge...
GREEK B.- Professor Morgan's section will meet with the other section today in Sever 29, taking seats in the back part of the room...