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...following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments covering the lower part of body...
...cloacae. The house is heated by means of a furnace, and there are also fireplaces in each large room. These fires are always kept ready to be lighted, so that at a moment's warning the house can be warmed and made ready for occupants. Special beds and linen are kept for use here, and, when the hospital is used, are never carried from the house, so that all danger from spread of the disease by this means is avoided. When a student is taken sick with contagious disease he is immediately taken to this hospital. To convey him there...
...Yale seniors have voted to send the Glee Club to give a concert at the Williamantic Linen Mills in recognition of the attention shown them at their visit last week...
...Yale faculty are going to be given "a chance to prove it." Prof. Sumner having made certain statements in regard to the low wages paid by the Willimantic Linen Company, the president of that company has placed a special train at the disposal of the Yale faculty to visit the mills and investigate the question...
...feet broad by one hundred and forty-nine feet long and measuring eighty feet to the roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw berries in February, and all the delicacies that belong to the menu...