Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Judge is vice-president of the General Theosophical Society. This society was founded in 1875 and has since had a most remarkable growth, there being only one country of importance-Russia-that does not contain at least one branch. Mr. Judge is a lawyer by profession and is an eminent Sanskrit scholar. Of late years his whole time has been given to the Theosophical Society, and he has travelled over nearly the whole world in its interests...
...very generally known that the library was supposed to contain at least two copies of this book and everybody wondered where the other copies were. Purely by accident, one of the students found a second copy on a chair, which was pushed under a bench so that the book was hidden from view. The placing of the book in this position was either a very remarkable coincidence or else it was a deliberate abuse of the privileges of the library on the part of some student for his own personal benefit. That it was the latter is almost certain...
...first floor will contain a quantitative laboratory, a balance room, store rooms, and rooms for the use of students in the graduate departments...
...picture, and on this line may be placed every object which can please or attract the eye. Often the placing of an object three-quarters of an inch below or above this line will throw out the picture. To be pleasing to the eye a painting must contain more than one object, for the eye becomes wearied easily if it sees but one thing, and rests with relief upon a second object, from which it returns with greater interest to the main figure. This same thing is true in sculpture...
During the course of his long service as secretary, the late Mr. Bolles wrote constantly to students, in reply to questions of many kinds. It is thought that many of these letters may contain advice and suggestions which would be of general usefulness and interest. Any students, past or present, who have such letters are requested to send them to Mrs. Frank Bolles, No. 6 Berkeley street, Cambridge, to be returned after copies have been made. Should it seem desirable to publish later any part of this correspondence, the names of the recipients will not be disclosed...