Word: apartments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...handsome double doors of the Cary building lead into a short hall which opens to the right and left. In these rooms are lockers-twenty in each. The rows of lockers are much farther apart than in the Gymnasium, and therefore a great improvement...
...rough, nor does it give opportunity for so much skill in playing. The greatest interest attaches to the Oxford and Cambridge boat races. The boats are not placed side by side as one would naturally suppose, but one behind the other in order and twenty-five yards apart. A long, narrow stream is selected and the object of each boat is to advance on the one in front of it until the stern is touched. The races last six days and the various positions are noted each evening and resumed the following morning. There is apparently in this manner...
...interesting lecture on "Semitic Sacred Books." The speaker said that we have to observe that the Semitic people were not behind other people in advancing thought but they were fully as worldly as the Greeks and thus they were able to accomplish much good. The Semitic books stand apart from other books in their power to adapt themselves to practical needs of the people...
...financial condition of the school is not a suitable one. The entire endowment of the school, apart from its buildings being but $196,263.54, it is obliged to rely chiefly upon the receipts from students ($58,141.48 in 1888 89.) This makes the tuition fee high, namely, $200 a year, besides laboratory fees and a graduation...
...gave an address on the needs of young men, and by Father Hall. who spoke in the cause of brotherhoods. At the Saturday's meeting the speakers were Bishop Dudley, Dr. Brooks, and Bishop Paddock. It was decided at the business meeting that the money which has been set apart for defraying the expenses of the convention should be appropriated to aiding Dr. Crummell in his work in the south. The convention adjourned at the close of the Saturday evening meeting...