Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last three lectures of the course on Ethnic Religions will be given in the lecture-room of the Divinity School, by James Freeman Clarke, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, April 24, May 1, and May 8. Subjects: The Scandinavians and their Religion; The Jews and their Religion; Christianity and all Religions...
...HAVE before me the Crimson of March 9th, which contains a complaint as to the ventilation of certain recitation-rooms. This immediately puts me in mind of the state of things existing in one of the greatest Universities of Germany. The writer has complained that "in one case some thirty men have been compelled to sit for an hour in a small room with closed doors and windows." In one of the large halls in the University of Leipzig more than two hundred students are gathered together to listen to the learned Professor Curtius, whose fame is now world-wide...
...characteristics which distinguish mere hearsay from accredited fact. We learn, however, that this plan was proposed to the Library Council, and was not approved; but that there will probably be some simplification and abbreviation in the present system of card catalogue. The numerous and vigorous advocates of more reading room and of open alcoves will perhaps be pleased to learn that it is the present intention of the Library management, on the completion of the new part, to fill the floor of the old building with reading tables, and to have certain alcoves containing books of reference and those most...
...gentleness, he glided forward, and with the smile and manner of an old family friend, said, "Had your head examined? guess I didn't see you t' other day; have n't had your head examined, have you?" Politely motioning toward a friend who happened to be in the room, I pretended to be absorbed in my book. Renardy was in an easy-chair by the window, closely studying a work by an author popular among students of the Classics, and occasionally glancing for explanation of difficult passages at a little book on the same subject, written by one Tacitus...
...think he's got presence and majesty enough for that. Just bring the result of your long study and remarkable ability to bear on him. I have n't got time, just now, to figure up the precise value of your service to him, but - " I went into another room and closed the door...