Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...come to the university. These talks are on college ideals and traditions; and these meetings tend to acquaint the students with well-known faculty members and with college modes of life. . . It is evident that the Freshmen . . . cannot hope to become familiar with the ways of college without some exterior assistance. They remain an amorphous but unamalgamated group in their present situation, and some definite means should be taken to submit them to the solvent of university life. CALIFORNIA ALUMNI FORTNIGHTLY...
...concord, and there recited in the court house, the hall becoming a barracks for the Continental soldiers, while Wadsworth House, also still standing, became the headquarters of General Washington. In 1827 Massachusetts was renovated and remodelled, and in 1870 remodelled again, but small changes only were made upon the exterior. Among those of the old days who roomed in this hall were James Freeman Clarke, George Frisbie Hoar, Robert G. Shaw, and Jared Sparks. It is supposed that the residence built by President Dunster about 1644 stood on part of the land now covered by this hall. Today it serves...
...exterior view and floor plan printed herewith are of the Hill Memorial Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Although the University auditorium would not necessarily be similar to that shown above, the Hill Memorial gives a good idea of the type of building that is needed here. The main floor contains seats for about 800 people, which, combined with the balcony and gallery, makes accommodations for over a thousand spectators. In addition to the main lecture hall, which contains a large organ, there are several dressing rooms, lobbies, rest rooms, and check rooms, which complete the equipment...
...growth of these activities is useful not merely for the contribution they make to the intellectual life of the public surrounding our colleges. The institutions themselves stand to gain by building up such a "department of the exterior." The deeper root the colleges take in the actual life and environment of the people around them the more healthy their own life as academies is bound to become. And the contribution is sometimes specific as well as general. In one New England college the course of lectures on ethical problems which a professor arranged for a series of Sunday night meetings...
...believe in the Volunteer system. It promotes the individuality of men and allows them the pride which comes from having done that which one is compelled by no exterior law to do. The volunteer system allows for the slacker who trusts that his own shirking will be overlooked in the generosity of others...