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...passage way, thus partially enclosing a court-yard. A piazza, which encircles the court, will be supported by oaken columns, decorated with carved capitals, and will be adorned also with triple arches. The house, which is two stories in height, will be essentially a locker house, and will contain 880 lockers...
...Judge is vice-president of the General Theosophical Society. This society was founded in 1875 and has since had a most remarkable growth, there being only one country of importance-Russia-that does not contain at least one branch. Mr. Judge is a lawyer by profession and is an eminent Sanskrit scholar. Of late years his whole time has been given to the Theosophical Society, and he has travelled over nearly the whole world in its interests...
...very generally known that the library was supposed to contain at least two copies of this book and everybody wondered where the other copies were. Purely by accident, one of the students found a second copy on a chair, which was pushed under a bench so that the book was hidden from view. The placing of the book in this position was either a very remarkable coincidence or else it was a deliberate abuse of the privileges of the library on the part of some student for his own personal benefit. That it was the latter is almost certain...
...first floor will contain a quantitative laboratory, a balance room, store rooms, and rooms for the use of students in the graduate departments...
...picture, and on this line may be placed every object which can please or attract the eye. Often the placing of an object three-quarters of an inch below or above this line will throw out the picture. To be pleasing to the eye a painting must contain more than one object, for the eye becomes wearied easily if it sees but one thing, and rests with relief upon a second object, from which it returns with greater interest to the main figure. This same thing is true in sculpture...