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...ing. He breathed in these ideas in the class rooms and laboratories of the Carnegie Foundation school that rose, a long and delicately beautiful facad... ...ments, and glowing with reflections. There were the two historical mu- sic halls of this place, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, in 44 The World Set... ...mant, hovered for a moment, and then went on his way to the Alhambra music hall. Barnet became aware of an excitement in the newspaper kiosks at the c... ...ealise the enormity of the thing it was supposed to control…. In the great hall of the W ar Control, whose windows looked out across the Seine to the ... ...rom the dictating room to take the air upon the terrace be- fore the great hall and to eat such scanty refreshment as she had brought with her until h... ...till and star- less sky, but also the whole spacious interior of the great hall with its slender pillars and gracious arching and clustering lamps was...

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...e middle of August he and his daughter usually went for a month to Wharton Hall in Hertfordshire, the seat of his cousin Sir Alured Wharton;—and this ... ...here to go? Sir Alured was a relation and a gentleman. Emily liked Wharton Hall. It was the proper thing. He hated Wharton Hall, but then he did not k... ...y decision. They were, as usual, expected 109 Anthony Trollope at Wharton Hall this autumn, and that arrangement could not be abandoned without expla... ...ets were first created, and whose earlier forefathers had lived at Wharton Hall much before that time. It may be imagined, therefore, that Sir Alured ... ...e to save some- thing, the duty of living as Sir Alured Wharton of Wharton Hall should live made those struggles very ineffective. He was a melancholy... ...ll our sakes I should be better away. I can get shooting with Musgrave and Carnegie in Perthshire. I dare say I shall go there, and take a share with ...

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...t away into London itself—bicycles, motor-cars and then more motor-cars, a Carnegie library. “You’d hardly think it could keep on,” said Mr. Tom Small... ...ouled young man named Grubb, with a black-smeared face by day, and a music-hall side in the evening, who dreamt of a patent lever chain; and it seemed... ...t boom in aeronautics was beginning. Grubb and Bert heard of it in a music-hall, then it was driven home to their minds by the cinematograph, then Ber... ...wl of undistinguished popula- tion. There were, no doubt, museums and town halls and even cathedrals of a sort to mark theoretical centres of mu- nici... ...e and seven. It was dangerous not to wear a war button. The splendid music-halls of the time sank every topic in patriotism and evolved scenes of wild... ...k five attacking airships, one to the Navy Yard on East River, one to City Hall, two over the great business buildings of Wall Street and Lower Broadw...

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... time came for him to join these revels) he turned pale and sickened in si- lence. Of all the guests whom he there encountered, he had toleration for ... ... there on the threshold. T o the son that raised him he gave the bag of money. “Hae,” said he. All the way up the thieves had seemed to him to be at h... ...ith the innocent consciousness of a child. Hastily she did up the massive and shining coils, hast- ily donned a wrapper, and with the rushlight in her...

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...pists and public men, our parties and institutions gathered into one great hall, and into this hall a huge spout, that no man can stop, discharges a b... ...undity or the reverse. Mr. Vrooman, who, with Mrs. Vrooman, founded Ruskin Hall at Oxford, writes to much the same effect. He argues that people intel... ... narrow passage, perhaps four feet wide, which still retains the title of “hall.” Oak staining on the woodwork and marbled paper accentuate the lordly... ...a Board School, and very probably after- wards to evening classes—or music-halls. Here again is a new type of home, in which the English of 1920 are b... ...itably—just to show how to do it. Mr. David Devant— the brilliant Egyptian Hall conjuror—will show any assem- bly of parents how to amuse children qui... ...art (with his Public Libraries’ Act), Mr. Passmore Edwards, and Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the stream of endowment for research and teaching flowed just as ...

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...pay, and induce them to build for Godhead a mighty fortress, complete with hall and chapel, tower and bell, for the sake of the homesteads that will g... ... his broken spear in his hand, he has seated himself in state in the great hall, with the Gods and Heroes assembled about him as if in council, solemn... ...rst Act We now understand the new tramping strain. We are in the Rhineside hall of the Gibichungs, in the resence of King Gunther, his sister Gutrune,... ...nther with him to the foot of the mountain, and leaving Hagen to guard the hall and sing a very fine solo which has often figured in the programs of t... ...d of the previous drama. The Second Act In the second act we return to the hall of Gibich, where Hagen, in the last hours of that night, still sits, h... ... Engels, in 1876 he was well on the way towards becoming Krupp of Essen or Carnegie of Homestead. Now, without exaggerating the virtues of these gentl... ...ng done tant bien que mal by our Romanoffs, our Hohenzollerns, our Krupps, Carnegies, Levers, Pierpont Morgans, and their political retinues. And in t...

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...fallen asleep. While putting up our first building, which was named Porter Hall, after Mr. A.H. Porter, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who gave a generous sum tow... ...sgiving Day of that year we held our first service in the chapel of Porter Hall, although the building was not completed. In looking about for some on... ...e opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the attic of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls. But the number of students... ... decided to call the proposed building Ala- 111 Booker T. Washington bama Hall, in honour of the state in which we were labouring. Again Miss Davidso... ...to their means. The students, as in the case of our first building, Porter Hall, began digging out the dirt in order to allow the laying of the founda... ...eded. A short time ago we received twenty thousand dollars from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to be used for the purpose of erecting a new library building. Ou... ...elve feet. It re- quired ten years of work before I was able to secure Mr. Carnegie’s interest and help. The first time I saw him, ten years ago, he s... ...ork I wrote him a letter reading as follows: December 15, 1900. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 5 W. Fifty-first St., New York. Dear Sir: Complying with the requ...

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...ence any gathering of dull and formal and inattentive people in this dusty hall or that, with a jaded audience and intermittently active reporters, su... ... low-class European costume, and every degree of dirti- ness, to a central hall in which the gist of the examining goes on. The floor of this hall is ... ...signs that they do. It seems to me that the educational zeal of Mr. Andrew Carnegie and the university and scientific en- dowments of Mr. Rockefeller ...

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...ness, servility, cupidity roused by the prevailing smell of money. When Mr Carnegie rattled his millions in his pockets all England became one rapacio... ...ouse in the neighborhood of the City Road, in London, where, mistaking the Hall of Science for a chapel, she sat at the feet of Charles Bradlaugh for ...