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...George M. Pullman was in Chicago, a successful contractor. He persuaded Chicago & Alton officials to give him two coaches to remodel with sleeping berths. His novelties were upper berths that folded up by day, clean linen, one washroom for men and one for women. So successful were these sleepers that he immediately built a "Pullman" car designed especially for sleep-traveling...
Those who would remodel the present college educational system, seeing in its products too many defects for any hope of accomplished perfection often forget completely the necessity for strong and capable direction in primary and secondary school work. There is far too little known in this day of changing conceptions and fluctuating principles about the exact mental, physical, and moral discipline which the modern child requires. With the home leaning, from either ignorance or pure selfishness, upon the school, a higher type of educator is most necessary that the colleges need not click their gates against faces more ambitious than...
...soon as the carpenters finish the new courts, they will remodel courts seven and fourteen, originally used for squash tennis, when the building was first built, and consequently oversize. The front walls will be moved forward about a foot and the real wall is to be but six and a half feet high. Formerly the space above this line was covered with chicken wire which hindered the view of spectators; and as balls rarely go higher than six feet in the court, the wire has been omitted and a series of bleacher seats erected in back. This will provide...
...also voted to remodel completely the apparatus and the antenna system, which would enable the club to begin active operation in about a month and to communicate by radio with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...
...University Library Committee has undertaken to remodel completely the delivery room of Widener Library. New furniture is being installed, as well as devices to make more efficient and convenient the handling of books from the stacks...