Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...purpose of enabling students to come into closer contact with Nature, and thus to make more critical observations of her works. Though hardly a year old, it can already be pronounced a success. When the students at this school for the first time came together in the lecture-room, there was a spirit of fault-finding prevalent among them, in consequence of the not over-sumptuous accommodations, but when they had listened to the introductory remarks of the Professor, made with his characteristic earnestness, discontent was turned into content, and all set cheerfully about their work, feeling that none ought...
...FATHER" who was reading the report of some college meeting, in which the names of many undergraduates and their classes were given, - Mr. - '74, Mr. - '75, etc., - asked his son how it was that so many of the students seemed to occupy the same room...
...impromptu hunt occurred the other day through the open spaces of a well-filled lecture-room, in which the Professor, the Assistant-Professor, and a very large hound - supposed to have some "blood" in him - took prominent parts. The hound was finally captured and thrust into the adjoining-laboratory; he has not been seen since, and is supposed to be missing...
...Lecture-Room of the Museum, in which Agassiz for the last time spoke in public, has been heavily draped in black...
...rest. We have a whole continent before us; why not take a lesson of the English and German students? Where is the Harvard exploring party, the Canoe Club, the American Alpine Club? For in our forests and on our mountains and prairies, and not alone in a Saratoga drawing-room, should we seek change, and relief from our masters for the larger portion of the year, - Study and Society...