Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students hurrying to examinations yesterday morning were momentarily horrified to see the usually reliable hands of the Memorial Hall clock pointing to quarter of ten o'clock. The storm put both that clock and the Germanic Museum timepiece out of commission the night before last...
...hands on the big foursided timepiece of Memorial Hall were buried in ice and snow and refused to function. At 2.15 o'clock in the early morning the clock on the Germanic Museum gave up the fight...
...Memorial Hall clock is notorious for the ease with which it succumbs to the attacks of the weather, but the Germanic Museum instrument is of a higher calibre and as a rule has no difficulty in continuing its work with entire disregard of wind and snow...
Three years ago the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor called a conference of women in industry. Last week the second such conference assembled in the new National Museum at Washington...
...every undergraduate dealing with these materials. The great English universities, whence proceeded the inspiration for the tutorial system, also exemplify this other excellent method of breathing the breath of life into learning. Neither is the University without its object lessons. Concentrators in Fine Arts come to regard the Fogg Museum as a human and satisfactorily personal place for academic work. The Lowell and Child Memorial Libraries and the Farnsworth Room are evidence that special collections of books are not impossible. The vast silences of great reading rooms and the anatomical appearance of glass-floored shadowy stacks do not provide...