Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the substantial gifts received by the University during the last academic year one of the most valuable and interesting is the splendid collection of glass flower-models for the Potanical Department. This collection is presented by Mrs. E. C. Ware of Boston, in memory of her husband. Dr. Ware; and when placed in position in the room specially prepared for and devoted to it in the new Botanical Museum, will be known as the "Ware Memorial Collection...
...boxes are arranged in tiers along the wall. On the second floor are special laboratories for advanced classes. On the third floor the entire space is occupied by one large room, which is to contain the meteorites and other specimens. The room will be fitted up later with plate glass show cases...
...subject is an old Roman one. The mother of the Gracchi is called upon to display her jewels, and brings as her jewels her children. The figure of her mother is a very beautiful one. The glass in the whole window has been selected with great care, and is very brilliant in color, paint being used only for the flesh tints...
...exhibition rooms, to be open to the public. These rooms run all through the building, connecting with one another, so that one can walk from the Zoology department exhibition rooms through the entire building. Also on the third floor is a long room given up to the collection of glass flowers-one case of which will be on exhibition in about three weeks...
...meals at this club each day, and there is still a large waiting list. Thirty men take lunches only. All the meals are served a lacarte. It is the main purpose of the club to serve thoroughly good food at cost. Tea, coffee and cocoa cost three cents; a glass of milk, two cents; various kinds of bread, one cent; pies, five cents; cold meats, ten cents; eggs, eight and ten cents; soups, five cents; roast beef or mutton, twelve cents; vegetables four or two cents; pudding, five cents;. There are various other dishes at the discretion of the steward...