Word: theatrum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...your contemporary has seen fit to publish I will begin with one or two mistakes which a glance at any official publication would have remedied at once. In the first editorial the new theatre of Memorial Hall is referred to once as "Sanders's Theatre," and once as the "Theatrum." The first name would lead one to suppose that it was a place of public entertainment, where the performances were presumably of a variety character; the last that the word theatre was unknown in our language, pretty much as campus suggests the idea that its pedantic inventors were ignorant...
...exercises. There will also be addresses delivered by recipients of the degrees of A. M., Ph. D., etc. The exercises will be much more largely attended, because of the increase of interest among the friends of those who have hitherto been rather unjustly unrepresented, and the completion of the Theatrum will be opportune both on account of its size and its acoustic qualities, which are thought to be the best in the country. The Professors will hereafter wear gowns at Commencement...
...work on the Theatrum of Memorial Hall has begun, and we hope it will be rapidly pushed forward, that our grand Memorial Building may be as imposing without, as it is within...