As well as a gym hall there are kitchen facilities, a bar, senior ranks mess, stores, lecture rooms and an armoury.

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MIT, along with other academic shrines, may do all this while preserving the value of what it really sells: spots in the lecture hall and dorm rooms, the chance to interact face-to-face with a prestigious faculty and like-minded students and, a golden credential, the MIT diploma.

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He will also take over the George Square lecture theatre as a 480-seat space, along with two other rooms holding 200 people each.

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In like manner, many persons will prefer to hear lectures and sermons in the comfort and privacy of their own rooms, rather than to go to the church or the lecture-room.

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