Word: roome
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hanlan, the famous single sculler, visited the gymnasium yesterday afternoon. Of course the principal attraction for him was the rowing room, where he spent some time watching the 'Varsity at work on the rowing machines...
Considerable amusement was occasioned in the auditor's room at the hall the other evening by the peculiar movements of a party of visitors. A student (presumably a freshman), while conducting a couple of ladies down from the gallery, so far lost his presence of mind as to continue his descent after reaching the floor of the hall. It was not until the party arrived in the cellar, and found themselves surrounded by the gloomy instruments of torture for which this part of the building is celebrated, that the unfortunate mistake was discovered and corrected...
Every seat and every available inch of the aisles in the large lecture-room in Boylston Hall was filled with eager listeners yesterday evenings, when Dr. Waldstein delivered his second lecture on Greek...
...question which the lecturer in tended to answer was what influences brought about the sudden and phenomenal advance in Greek sculpture between 520 and 360 B. C.; how it came about that the fetters of conventional archaism were broken through and room given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition...
FRENCH READINGS.A course of six French Readings, beginning March 21, 1887, will be given in Lecture-room No. 11, Sever Hall, on Mondays, at 4 p.m., by Professors Bocher and Cohn...