Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...immediately made to the gentleman in charge of the gymnasium, and from him they learned a fact which, while being of interest to all, is especially important to those students who are interested in boxing. The fact earned was this: that the room in question was not for the use of the students at large, but only for the pupils of the aforesaid instructors. As these men pay nothing to the college for the use of the room, exactly where they get their exclusive right to it is not known. While we dislike to be continually complaining of the mismanagement...
...management of the club have fitted up handsome rooms on Brattle Street, near the square, and the sixteen members doubtless make the best use of these advantages...
...pretty design. Also the new upright piano, just purchased, adds its share of beauty and utility to the room. In the front on Kirkland street is a large bay window, well draped, which is to contain a commodious window seat. One third of the room is curtained off for use as a reading-room. This part is to be furnished with a large table, several easy chairs, book-cases and window seats. In the reading-room there will be besides religious papers, several dailies from New York and Boston...
...particulars Harvard may unquestionably claim superiority over all other colleges in America, in her library and in her gymnasium. Yet, strange to say, of no two things do Harvard men seem less appreciative. The gymnasium and library are both used by a large number of men, but not by as many men as ought to use them. We do not think it necessary to enumerate the advantages of either of these institutions, but we do think that a little urging is not out of place. Different though the institutions are in the ends for which they were built, their benefit...
...strange to some, perhaps, for anyone to say that many students on entering college do not know how to study properly. But certain it is that many graduates have declared that only when they were graduated did they begin to know the true art of study, and how to use it. If, then, two of the most important lessons of life are not learned by college men until the close of their senior year, it must follow that some schooling in the art of study, so newly learned, when it can be attended by a humility so newly attained...