Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first impression that a visitor to the Trophy Room receives is a feeling of disappointment. The next is one of wonder that the Trophy Room of a College with so long and varied an athletic record, should be so bare and uninteresting and contain so few trophies, compared with the great number that its many teams must have gained. When the Gymnasium was built the room was set aside for the display of photographs of Harvard athletes and athletic teams, of baseballs and footballs won in competition, and of all flags, cups and other trophies which should come into Harvard...
This house, excavated in 1895, received its name from the fact that it was found to contain two seals, bearing the name of Vettius. In the year 79 A. D., when Pompeii was buried, the house was over 160 years old, but had lately been redecorated. A typical Roman house of the time from Nero to Vespasian, it was much more elaborate than was usual at that period. Behind the "atrium," or living room, is found a large court or peristyle, from which opened various small rooms and the large dining room. The latter is more a picture gallery than...
...required theme, of four pages in length, is to contain a detailed description of the training each student has received before entering college, and is not for publication in any form. In some of the English courses the themes have already been collected...
...entrance to the gymnasium is on a level with the street, and on the ground floor is the swimming pool. This pool will contain 240,000 gallons of filtered water, and will be about twice the size of the tank in the Yale gymnasium. Around the edges of the building will be placed showers, needle baths, lockers and dressing room...
...eight-inch photographic telescope for the observatory is in process of construction. It is called a doublet, or rectilinear instrument, from the fact that it is to contain two object glasses, by which the linear distortions caused by ordinary lenses are nearly eradicated. The new telescope differs from the present Draper instrument in that it will take successive stellar photographs automatically, changing and exposing the plates according to the particular programme decided upon. The charts produced will be about eight inches square...