Word: models
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Williams has now the model college dormitory. Morgan Hall, the gift of Ex-Governor Morgan to the college, is ready for its occupants. The building is a model of convenience, being warmed by steam, aired by the best ventilation, with hot and cold water in all the rooms and in a bath-room in the basement. Each set of rooms consists of a reception room and two chambers, so that they can accommodate two or four students. Each reception room is furnished with a stationary book-case. The work on the rooms and smaller doors is an imitation of cherry...
Students should call at L. D. Drury's store at once, and examine the model students' lamp now on exhibition for a few days...
Whatever rules are adopted and whatever men are named to fill the offices, let us hope for the prevalence of the spirit of good feeling and fairness toward all throughout the evening, so that '83's class day shall be a model one, free from bitterness and jealousy, and one which every member of the class can look forward to with pleasant anticipations...
...apparent success of the debating "legislature" at Williams, conducted and organized after the model of Congress, suggests the query why the plan may not be again adopted at Harvard. It was badly managed during its short life here, but that it then failed is no reason that it should not be again tried and made a successful institution of the college. The idea is good; it only needs energy and good management to gain popularity and success...
Myers when going at full speed is a model runner, both in the pose of the body and the way in which the limbs work, for he carries the head well back, the chest advanced, and the body straight on the hips, while the legs are swung straight ahead and come down on the ground with a directness that enables him to use their muscular force to the fullest extent. He is a far better type of a runner than his English rival, for the latter often extends his body forward, and uses his limbs much as the steamboats...