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...front half will also contain the testing and heating arrangements. The first floor will be used entirely by the students of the Mechanical Engineering course, and will contain drawing rooms, lecture rooms, and the library. The second and third floors will be devoted to the physics laboratory, the optic room, and several large drawing rooms. The fourth floor is divided into two large halls which will be used as examination rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Sheffield Building at Yale. | 12/1/1892 | See Source »

...paralyzing agent upon one just beginning to use it, so that instead of its being an aid to digestion, it really retards it. With the heart it causes that palpitation and tremulousness that is so frequently observed, and is often the cause of vertigo. Its effect upon the optic nerve is to cause dimness of sight, and eventually to weaken the eye and bring on near-sightedness. The hearing is also affected by its use, a tendency being developed to hear imaginary sounds. Dr. Sargent said that in college the man who roomed above him was a great user...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. | 3/8/1883 | See Source »

With her Coptic-optic volume in her hand, hand, hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TUTOR AND THE MAIDEN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

...gives the men, place, subjects, events, etc., mentioned in the body of the book. Each subject is chronological, beginning, for instance, in American History, with the Northman discovery, ending with the Civil War of 1861. Nearly every work of fiction of any value is included, from Optic's "Frank on the Gunboat" to Lope de Vega's "Probeza no es Vileza." The popular character, fashionable life, provincial and peasant life, so far as possible, are represented; nor are university life, law life, sporting life, sea life, reforms, prison abuses, social changes, neglected. In fact, every work of fiction possessing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VALUABLE PAMPHLET. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

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