Word: east
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jefferson Physical Laboratory the Advertiser says: "The undergraduates will have access to the lecture room and general laboratory through a small entrance at the east end of the building and by a stairway removed as far as practicable from the rooms devoted to special investigations. This arrangement, and the placing of the engines and dynamos on the outside of the building, in a separate building to the eastward, will serve to prevent the jar of the machinery and the tramping of students from interfering with delicate observations. The basement of the central piece is occupied by receiving-rooms and storage...
...several "improvements" during the recess. Part of the woodwork at the west end of the hall has been painted over with a dark red colored pattern which does not seem to be favorably received by the average art critic who boards at the hall. The posts at the east end are now being gilded with an alarming yellow color. The new desks and railing in the auditor's office have been finished. The most popular improvement of all, however, is the placing of a new clock on the west gallery...
...upon this plan is a matter of no small account. As the Western States grow in wealth and in opportunities for higher education within their own borders, it will be but natural that they will more and more turn to the older and more thoroughly organized institutions of the East, and, we may hope, more particularly to Harvard as the completest representative of the university ideal in this country...
Brooks Johnson, the colored servant of the late Misses Judson, was arrested at East Hartford yesterday on suspicion of being concerned in the murder...
...terrible murder was committed in East Watertown last evening, the victim being Mrs. Etta G. Carlton. The crime was committed with a large cobble stone. No trace has been found of the murderer, and the whole affair is a mystery...