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...wFOR sale at half cost, set of storm windows. Will fit any of the east or west bay window rooms in Matthews. Address, "H," care Leavitt & Peirce...
...RENT.- Very pleasant, sunny front room, one flight, bay window, bath and gas. Overlooking Casino, Soldiers Field and river. Transient or permanent, to one or two. 159 Mt. Auburn...
...enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they had never felt. It seems the revelation of a new heaven and new earth, and to contain in itself its own justification...
...word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again...
...Harvard men playing in the correspondence games with Yale have been in Cambridge through the vacation, the games have been continued. Anyone who desires to see the latest position can do so by looking in Sever's window where the games are kept set up on two chess boards. The following moves have been made since the last synopsis was published...