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...minuteness and relentlessness of providence, is she necessarily false? It has been said that only one language can be thoroughly mastered by any one, and as the style is the man, so the language is the nation. No one can be a cosmopolitan writer; the world is too wide and too complex; not Sophocles, not Victor Hugo, and certainly not Tolstoi. To cut short this essay, this story seems rather inaccurate and a little labored...
...standing lockers. On the right hand side, commencing at the rear, are the dressing room, drying room, wash room and lavatory, communicating with each other in the order named. The billiard room has space for four tables. The rowing room is fifty-two feet long and nine feet wide. The wash room contains six shower baths and two needle showers, in addition to all conveniences necessary for a well-appointed room of the kind...
...building itself is T shaped, the head of the T forming the front on the street. The leg of the T runs back to the rear of the building line, leaving on each side an open space or court twenty feet wide. This shape, giving as it does...
...most colleges scientific studies were finding their place, the Lawrence Scientific School has been steadily losing ground. It has been overshadowed by its sister across the street. When the school was founded by the bequest of the Lawrences our college was narrow and saw no propriety in allowing a wide variety of study to the undergraduate. To obtain advance: science it was necessary to look beyond the college; and then it was that the Lawrence school had a wide and useful sphere. That it occupied a front rank among its fellows can be seen by referring to the earlier catalogues...
...suffered seriously, simply from being overshadowed by the growing college across the street. Some have thought that this meant a discouragement to science-teaching at Cambridge, but the very reverse is the case. When the school was founded, the college was narrow, and saw no propriety in allowing a wide variety of study to its undergraduates. There was no advanced teaching in physical or natural science in the college till 1871, and ambitious students of these subjects in the earlier years had to go to the Lawrence school for them, if they came to Cambridge at all. Now the same...