Word: walls
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Arnold '52 has recently presented the Union with a framed copy of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. It has been placed on the north wall of the Assembly Room. This gift is one of many presented to the Union by Mr. Arnold, among which are the speaker's desk, the exhibition case in the Periodical Room and many valuable books for the Library...
...ruins, and which are more prized by the average tourist than is the truth. Occasionally, as in the case of Dunstaffnage, he exaggerates the grandeur or strength of a place: this castle does not at present rise sheer from the sea-cliff, and but for a garden wall it is quite easy to walk around it. Of the structural refinements of Both well, on the other hand, he does not seem sufficiently appreciative. The style is not good; one grows tired of "encient" and "curtain," and other un-necessarily technical phrases like "bridge of approach" and "battering (i.e. sloping) bases...
...reconstructed, the telescope enables the observer to do his work wholly indoors. The observatory, instead of containing the telescope, as in the usual arrangement, simply adjoins it, and the rays of the object are reflected up through the open air and carried through a tube in the outer wall of the observing room to the eye-piece. Light from an object under observation undergoes three reflections before it reaches the observer. It is first received by the 60-inch mirror at the bottom of the tube, which throws it up to a second small mirror mounted centrally within and near...
...fronting on one corner of the new Avenue Louis Pasteur, Brookline, and for a spacious club-house on the opposite corner. The dormitory will provide small suites for the needs of the men, at the rear of which will be an enclosed garden and tennis courts, surrounded by a wall or pergola. The club-house or Medical School Union will contain commons, a library, and facilities for indoor games. An important feature will be a hall large enough to accommodate five hundred to a thousand men, a facility which is now lacking. This will not only provide room...
...able to address such a crowd, he said that any one who could look into such faces and have any fear for the country's future was a pessimist for who there was absolutely no hope. The college man, he remarked, can see about as far into a stone wall as any man there is, but he must not be in such a hurry to get rich that he forgets his duties as an honest citizen. He recognizes the serious things in life, however, and in his hands lies the future of our Commonwealth; you are almost always sure, also...