Word: lineal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented to the Medical Library, Boylston place, his very valuable and extensive collection of medical books. The library already is so filled with books that, in order to accommodate this donation, which will cover eighty lineal feet of shelf room, the librarian found it necessary to have built several additional shelves...
...arrangement. The Puritan founders of our college, as is well known, were a narrow-minded set of men in some particulars, though great and good in others. One of their exhibitions of narrowness consisted in their condemnation of the celebration of Christmas as an institution of Romanism, a lineal descendant of the east of the Saturnalia of the Pagan Yule Tide, etc. Now a relic of this ancient Puritan narrowness has come down to us in our college regulations making the Christmas recess as short as possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which...