Word: uses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular machines on which the men have been practicing will probably be transferred from the Carey Building to the rowing room of the Gymnasium for the use of the class crews...
...building for architecture will contain lecture rooms, and, what is especially needed, large and well lighted drafting rooms. The engineering building will have first of all ample electrical and mechanical workshops. This is an important need, as students are still obliged to use the workshops of the Cambridge Manual Training School. The new building will also contain lecture rooms and drafting rooms...
...use your columns to call attention to the fact that Thursday of this week is the annual Day of Prayer for Colleges? To one, a graduate of another institution where the day is always observed by special services, and has been a marked occasion many times in its history in its religious effect, it is a matter of regret that Harvard, the mother university of America. founded for the education of ministers of the Gospel, and the scene at present of so much practical religious activity, should ignore this day so generally observed and so rich a blessing...
...place on the shelves; but though the offense is often discovered, the offender himself always seems to escape detection. This is extremely unfortunate. The number of books reserved, especially in some of the larger courses, is necessarily very small in proportion to the number of students who desire to use them. Inconvenience is fairly sure to result at all times, but it is felt in particular under the pressure of the mid-year and final examinations. Under the circumstances, gentlemanly feeling should surely prompt a student to more than common consideration of the just claims of his class-mates...
...Scientific School. The Graduate School, however, has had a development in administration which has been its own and to which its present important position in the University is largely due. Under that administration the large resources of the University have been put to more extensive and systematic use in the interests of advanced study and research, and the cause of higher education throughout the country has been steadily advanced...