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...good serviceable cover of cambric is very good for keeping the outside neat and clean while in active use; but when no longer used this cover should be removed. A shelf full of books covered with cloth or paper is dull and monotonous. People do not care to look at a case of books with such an unattractive dress and as Poole says, "books lose their individuality by being covered." these latter suggestions apply more to the care of numbers of books together. In that connection it has been said that "you should never attempt to classify books on your...
...College was founded by William of Wayneflete, an English bishop, in 1457, but was not erected until between 1475 and 1481. The buildings proper cover about eleven acres, inclosing three quadrangles of unequal size, while the grounds belonging to the institution have an extent of over one hundred acres. passing through a narrow gateway on the High street, the visitor reaches the first quadrangle called St. John the Ba tist's. In this quadrangle an annual service is held from an old altar standing in one corner, on the day set aside as sacred to that saint. The court...
...blue cap. Each color has its corner in the dueling room, and here the students smoke and drink until the combatants appear. The duelists are dressed and armed in an adjoining room in the following fashion: All the body is protected with thick leather plastrons, and heavy gauntlets cover the hands and arms. Their eyes and nose are protected by gauze goggles so that no slip of the sword can injure them. The forehead, chin and cheeks are left exposed. The dueling weapon is somewhat like a rapier, but longer and flatter and quite dull with the exception of three...
...year Examination in History 4 will cover Roman History from the time of Tiberius Gracches to the death of Constantine...
...such matter relating to our own library would make a pamphlet which every student and instructor would be glad to have by him at any time for reference and information. If the income of the library is too small to print these free of cost, a small charge, to cover the cost of editing and printing, would not be burdensome and would be repaid tenfold by the trouble saved. For our library, there might be an account of how to find files of papers, where certain large reference books and maps are kept, the bound volumes of the college papers...