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...senior class of Dartmouth College recently sent their measures to Oak Hall, Boston, to be fitted with the famous "one dollar linen suit, hat included." On Tuesday they made their appearance in them and created an immense amount of amusement in the town of Hanover...
...large bay window 19 feet wide and a carved fireplace. Around the walls of this room are a large number of lockers, each one 6 feet high by 18 inches, and having separate lock and key. This will give the room the appearance of having its walls of rich oak panelling. Here the students will be allowed to smoke, read, or otherwise pass the time between recitations...
...whole of the first floor will be plainly finished in oak, with exposed beams slightly carved in the lecture rooms. As a precaution against fire the floors will be constructed like those in modern mills, with the exception of the upper flooring of seven-eighths inch maple. These floors will be constructed as follows: Immediately on top of beams is a layer of two-inch spruce, while above this is a flooring of seven-eighths inch maple. Another layer of hard wood is placed below the spruce and between the beams, furnishing a ceiling for the rooms below...
...English writer states that Washington's "oak," Cambridge, is so called because "the father of his country signed the Declaration of Independence under...
...Hall at Windsor. Five o'clock is the dinner hour. There are fifty-two tables, which are waited on by fifty-two colored waiters. The steward sits in a pulpit-like arrangement, with a dumb waiter on each side of him. The tables and chairs are of solid oak. Royal joints of ruddy roast beef and generous fare fit for manly appetites, make the Harvard "commons" about as satisfactory to the inner man as its learned and scholarly aspect to the student...