Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...former owner, is by no means the most valuable of the volumes that will come to the college under this clause of Mr. Lowell's will. His collections of modern Spanish and Italian literature were exceptionally full, and his library contained a most curious and interesting shelf of books on the black arts of magic and witchcraft. Many interesting presentations will come to the college. The whole collection is now being examined, and will be freely drawn upon...
...losses of books and bats. The disappearance of these articles is not the work of thieves or "borrowers" but is because of the insufficiency of hat pegs and proper accommodations for books. Can not this annoyance be easily remedied? If another row of bat pegs were added and a shelf running around the wall be supplied, there would certainly be fewer "deductions" of property...
...ROBBINS, Sec.WILL the person who took a pair of gloves from the shelf near the lower end of Memorial Hall yesterday at lunch, please be kind enough to leave them with Mr. Howard, the head waiter...
STOLEN.- A large piazza chair; the wood work bronze green; straw back and seat painted yellow; a hinged adjustable shelf attached to the right arm. Information leading to recovery of property will be suitably rewarded...
...occupancy now, needing but a few alterations to make it entirely satisfactory. It is situated on the land owned by the college on the Allston marsh, well over towards Barry's corner. The building itself is twenty feet by twelve with a place in front for store and shelf for a scorer. In the front of the house, which faces the river, there is a large sliding window six feet across. In front of the house and running the whole length is a platform eight feet wide, from the front of which extend two raised walks for sixty feet...