Word: transept
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...Dougherty's lecture with interest and enthusiasm. An unusually large number of the faculty were present. The audience filled nearly every seat in the ball. Owing to the tardiness of a number of those holding reserved seats, people with admission tickets were kept waiting a few minutes in the transept of Memorial. This also delayed the lecturer somewhat. The lecture began, however, a little before eight o'clock...
Daniel Pratt having returned from his two weeks vacation, which he has been spending at Deer Island at the expense of the city of Boston, delivered his first lecture of the second half year in the transept of Memorial Hall, yesterday...
...bulletin boards come to be regarded as a part of the hall itself, I mean, an important part. Next in memory will come the throng of news boys at the entrance-"Record, sir? only one cent." "Herald, Journal, Transcript, and Star." Then there are the theatre stairs in the transept, famous for being the rostrum of that orator so noted among college men, the great and only Damel Pratt. How many discourses in poetry and prose have been heard there, discourses on love, astronomy, metaphysics, philosophy, and politics in general, and on the "great Pratt from Prattville," in particular...
...mats in the transept at Memorial Hall are in a dilapidated condition...
...army or navy in defence of the Union and the subsequent selection of the Delta as the most suitable situation for such a monument. On the 6th of October 1870, the corner stone of a "Memorial Hall" was laid and at commencement in 1874 the Dining Hall and Memorial Transept were ready for occupancy, but the Theater was not completed until 1876. The recent dedication of the Harvard statue closes the last scene of the history of the Delta as it is not likely that any further change will take place in the Delta, at least within the memory...