Word: shops
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...learn Arabic, his place had been a sinecure, and he had chiefly devoted his leisure to "drawing" pupils who were too late for college chapel. The sight of a lady of his acquaintance in the streets had at all times been alarming enough to drive him into a shop or up a lane, and he had not survived the creation of the first batch of married fellows. How he had got into this thoroughly wrong paradise was a mystery which he made no attempt to explain. "A nice place this, eh?" he said to me; "nice gardens; remind...
...accordance with the terms of the original gift of the old gymnasium, the estimated value of that building, now converted to other uses-that of a carpenter's shop-has been turned into a fund for a scholarship, which will bear the name of Henry Bromfield Rogers, and will have the value of $150 a year...
...distance between the college scientist's lecture room and laboratory, and the shop of the machinist, the joiner, the furniture maker, the stonecutter, is no longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced...
...Thayer Commons Hall on Holmes field, recently used as the college carpenter shop, is being rapidly demolished to make room for the new physical laboratory...
...gymnasium building will be used in future as the college carpenter shop...