Word: hung
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entered the reading room, where groups of students sat at the tables poring over the reference books.-"grinding," is the term in vogue at Cambridge for this studious pursuit. On either side of the reading room were alcoves, filled to repletion with still more books, while on the wall hung portraits of the past benefactors of the university, to whose munificence the students of Harvard owe this magnificent collection of volumes, forming the largest and most complete college library in America, Though it was early in the afternoon, we noticed that the library was gradually growing dark, and that...
...entered the next room, and here something met our gaze which very much puzzled us. It was a large cylindrical tin box, over which hung, suspended by an iron rod connected with the shaft over head, a huge steel blade. We gazed upon it with horror; it carried us back to the days of the French Revolution and the guillotine. We wondered if it might not be an instrument which in the middle ages had been used connected in some way with the Spanish Inquisition. At this point we were informed by our guide, who noticed our perplexity that this...
...water the rod is pressed against the sides of the blocks giving friction enough to make the stroke about as hard as when rowing in water, but when the oar is turned as in feathering, the bar slides freely in the grooves of the blocks. The block is hung on pivots so as to give the proper verticle component of the motion...
...effort whatever being made by the proper authorities to put a stop to the nuisance by detecting and punishing the offenders. We are led to refer to the subject again because of a recent and daring case of theft. Last week a student, upon going to dinner at Memorial, hung his overcoat upon one of the hooks at the side of the hall. Imagine his supreme disgust, when looking for his coat after dinner, to find that it had been stolen, almost under his very eyes. Now why should we be continually troubled by annoyances of this nature? There...
During the summer vacation some new portraits were hung up on the wall of Memorial...