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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...after wards. I should have circulated myself at the time, had I been able to get up. My friend Diogenes, in the next cell, laughed at my groans, but he soon stopped. After making my circulation perfect, my operator stood me up, and a stream that would have taken the prize at an engine trial was played, from a hose, into each particular ear and eye. What was left of me then took a feeble paddle in water that felt like ice, though its temperature was 80. One of the hospital beds received me after this...
...honor of his College seems almost incredible. Surely, no one can say, except in jest, that such a position would be more honorable for Harvard; and on second thoughts even the proposer must acknowledge, that, if considered aside from the honor of the position, such a stand taken by Harvard cannot be to her advantage. If she waits to win a race, working in the Association all this time in but a half-hearted way, then no one can blame her enemies for crying that her wish to withdraw has arisen solely from her want of success; and thus...
...been accepted by the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C., and as soon as an estimate of the cost is made, work will be begun. Beside repairing the floats, bridges, and rests, the upper floor will be much altered. All the small rooms and partitions will be taken down, and the whole floor divided by a partition running from door to door. On one side of this partition will be a bath-room, with two baths and five lavatoirs, a janitor's room, and a large club-room; on the other, there will be twenty-six lockers arranged...
...vestibule. The most easterly room, the dimensions of which are eighteen by twenty-six, is to be occupied by the librarian; the room next to this, going west, will be the assistant librarian's, dimensions nineteen by ten; and the rest of this ground extension will be taken up by a room, nineteen by forty-six, for the bibliographical department, and a vestibule, twelve by twenty-one. The entrance to this vestibule and the library will occupy the place in the east wing which corresponds to the place of entrance now used in the west wing. At the summit...
...room, storage, etc. The great number of books and the increasing number of borrowers require an entire change in the system of delivery. One of the plans of delivery which is proposed and probably will be adopted is that used for the delivery of books not to be taken from the building in the Boston Public Library...