Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Webster may be read and studied to advantage if improvement is desired in the power of criticism, description, narration, exposition and argumentative composition. There is far too little "college reading." Our four courses are not, after all, the whole substance of a good year's work at college. But space forbids further discussion at this point. We trust, however, that the matter will soon be presented more cogently and at greater length...
...communication, which we cannot publish for lack of space, very justly complains of the thoughtless way in which the bath-rooms at the gymnasium are used by a large number of men in college. These rooms are for bathing, not for dressing, especially not for putting on such articles of apparel as a hat, an overcoat, and a cane. It is not only ungentlemanly, but it is unfair for any one to occupy a bath room longer than absolutely necessary; the accommodations are already inadequate to the demand, and any action tending to make this inadequacy greater is censurable...
There are several points in connection with this subject which we should like to discuss, but lack of space obliges us to take them up later...
...managing the lectures care to sacrifice the comfort of the audiences and the value of the lectures to a selfish desire to see a solid column of humanity crowd itself in a room not at all capable of receiving it. Sever 11, with the poor lights, limited space, and hard seats, is no place for such lectures as Judge Holmes and Dr. Brooks have given. If none but Cambridge people, for whom the lectures are not especially intended, were turned away, Sever might do very well. But as long as students of the university have either to stand, - if they...
...dependent upon the college proper was $268,260.76; expenses, $266,307,33. The Divinity School also has a surplus, $271. - 17; but the Law School has a deficit of $412.86. The Medical School has a surplus of $2,039.10; and the Dental School one of $507.32. A lack of space prevents the addition here of other figures quite as interesting...