Word: cloister
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...organ is an excellent instrument and the Magdalen choir is one of the best in Oxford. A stone stairway leads to the Great Hall, which is well paneled with old oak and contains some good pictures by old masters, mostly portraits.-Opposite the hall and just above the cloisters is the library, rich in books and manuscripts, among its most valuable treasures is a manuscript of St. Chrysostom in Greek and some works printed by Caxton. Descending one reaches the cloisters built about the great quadrangle and generally considered the most beautiful portion of the college. The cloister-green with...
Yesterday afternoon the Yale sophomores gave their class German; the juniors theirs at the same place in the evening. The senior German took place in the Athenaeum, and one was given also by the Cloister men. It appears that the athletic Yalensians have become devotees of Terhsichore...