Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...question of opening our Library Sunday is to be distinguished from the broad question of opening city libraries on that day. The working-man may, and doubtless does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...
...College Library stands in a different relation to the students from that in which the library of a city stands to the citizens, different even from that in which the Reading-Room stands to the students themselves. The library is the students' workshop; its books are his tools. With the pressure of studies upon him, to open the library on Sunday is to encourage Sunday work on the part of the student...
...boat-house. For the benefit of the Freshmen and others who may never have visited the boat-houses, I will state that the large commodious building in the centre is the University House, that on the right the Club House, and the farthest one, on the left, the workshop of the ingenious boat-builder, John Blakey. The lower stories of the two houses contain the boats; the upper stories, lockers and dressing-rooms. The University House has also a bath-room and a large room for meetings, etc. This house has a balcony, from which one gets a magnificent view...