Word: closets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Faculty, psychology, as taught in most American colleges, was baseless assumptions in regard to the workings of the human brain. It had no relation to the practical facts of life, was of no imaginable utility in a workaday world, and appealed only to a very small class of closet philosophers who had no interest in Things as They Are. That Professor Muensterberg "changed all that" cannot be claimed, but it is true he did as much as anybody else, and more than all except a few others, to put the science of mind in this country on a sound...
...addition and as a further preventative to fire the University has installed an excellent system of automatic fire sprinklers in the basement of all the Yard dormitories, fire extinguishers are hung in all the entries, and various apparatus such as ladders, hose, and axes are placed in a closet in the back of University Hall...
...Turkish bath, and on the sixth floor the gymnasium and five squash courts. The floors from the seventh to the seventeenth will be given over to bedrooms. They have been so arranged as to make the rooms available singly or in suites, each with a bath and large closet...
Jewelry valued at several hundred dollars, gathered from the rooms in Apley Court, was found wrapped up in a towel lying in a closet of Sturgis' room where the burglar had thrown it when he was trapped. The prisoner is in the Cambridge police station charged with seven counts of larceny, which involve thefts amounting to over...
...various dormitories to receive articles donated. As it may be impossible, in some cases, for the collectors to see all the men assigned to them, no one should wait to be asked for his donation but should leave it with the collector in his building. Let everyone ransack his closet and wardrobe and make the response to this call exceed all previous records...