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...room up-stairs is entirely devoted to the purposes of a dormitory. Underneath it is the room, which serves as reading room, dining room and reception room. Separated from this by a passage not enclosed, is the kitchen. Everything is rough and nothing can be discovered of lath or plaster, but everything is comfortable and suitable, from the rough chimney in which we burn logs on cold evenings, to the rough pine table at which we dine, scrawled all over by the hands of visitors and interesting notes and comments...
...druggist, dependent largely for his support on the patronage of Yale students. advertises as follows: "Arnica, sticking-plaster, splints, bandages and other base-ball goods...
...objects. In the midst of the tumultuous city, here all is stillness and solitude, where medical science, taking her pupils by the hand, leads them into her secret chambers, unfolding the intricacies of every department. An Apollo Belvedere and a Venus de Medici show in one room imitations in plaster cast and in marble, models of art and of the just and fairest proportions of the human form...
...lecturer also recommended strongly wire lathing covered with plaster, which will effectually stop almost any fire. Several kinds of automatic sprinklers were shown, which are of great value in checking a fire, and are a very important invention...
...soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature which many a freshman wishes could apply to his physics or analytics - it cannot be opened. Another interesting relic in the room is a plaster cast of Cromwell's face made from the mask taken after death by the sculptor, Thomas Woolner. After passing through the hands of Carlyle and Charles Eliot Norton, it finally found a permanent resting-place in the library in 1881. If any one has any doubt as to Cromwell...