Word: connections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...management announces that arrangements have been made with the street car company and that special cars will leave the theatre at the close of every performance direct for every railroad station and ferry in the city to connect with the late trains, besides the regular car lines that run direct to every section of the city...
...space for current periodicals and the reference and "reserved" books. An elevated desk near the stairway will give a commanding position to the keeper of the room. There will be between the towers small consultation rooms at each end of each floor of the new stack. A door will connect the reading room with the apartment over the delivery room, affording additional space for books and readers. The old boiler room (beneath the delivery room) will be fitted for newspapers and pamphlets. The entire building, new and old, will be wired for electric bulbs, 1,200 in number...
...Library, while the southern is to be occupied by the vestibule and adjoining chambers before mentioned. On the second story, which will be approached by the staircases at the four angles of the building, the gallery above referred to will perform the same service as the ambulatory below, and connect the trustees' room and the president's private room on the south, and book stacks containing special libraries and seminary rooms on the east, west and north...
Work on the University Boat House is rapidly nearing completion. Today the three bridges which connect the larger float with the platform were floated down stream from their winter quarters to the boat house. The smaller float and its bridge are already in place...
...cultus of the dead comprises the observances and offerings paid to the dead as sentient beings. So widespread has been this cultus from the earliest ages that Spencer tries to derive all religion from it. Savage minds connect events in causal sequence very readily and they invoke the dead according as they see good or evil following their acts. The sentiments which lead to this invocation of the dead vary among different people. Sometimes the terror of the dead predominates, and we find various charms and obstacles employed to prevent the return of the dead to the places which they...