Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what we wrote. But we do regret that our worthy contemporary should feel so sore over the matter. We are ever ready to receive well-meant criticism ourselves; we do not intend to give up our own right of offering it to others. But, however the Lampoon may have felt over our critical editorial, it is very noticeable that the criticisms are much less applicable to the current number of the paper than they have been to the three or four preceding numbers. Of course no one can be more glad to see this change than...
...stack which will hold 40,000 volumes, and a reading room with a large open fire place, thus adding much to the comfort of the readers. The building will cost about $40,000 when completed and will supply a want of which students in the Divinity School have long felt the need. At present Divinity Hall embraces a library, a dormitory and lecture rooms. As the new building will make the lecture rooms and the library superfluous, these rooms will be changed into sleeping apartments, and the whole of the interior of Divinity will be renovated so as to give...
...assembly room of the university has been converted into a roomy and well equipped gymnasium. Frank Dole is in charge of this, and his instruction and supervision is doing much for the athletic men. Next year regular gymnasium work will be prescribed by the college, and much curiosity is felt to know the outcome of this innovation. The present gymnasium, though good, is merely temporary, as a plan is on foot to build a new and expensive one, which will rival the Hemenway; the ground has been chosen, and work will be begun as soon as the necessary funds...
...efficient fire-escapes. If private owners are willing to make the pecuniary sacrifice necessary for the construction of iron fire-escapes we cannot quite conceive what pretext the college authorities have for leaving the majority of the dormitories in the yard without these safeguards. The most crying need is felt in Thayer, whose light and unsatisfactory construction has been the subject of much complaint for years...
...special interest will be felt in the work done during the recess...