Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That night not a fellow laid his head on his bed...
...half inches thick with cement and gravel in two coats, of which the second coat will be pure cement put on before the first coat has entirely set. The floor of the fire, engine and coal rooms, will be made of hard brick set on a gravel bed and covered with cement. The floor of the laboratory and that part of the floor of the western wing that lies over the Rumford lecture room, and those portions of the floors of the central part of the building that lie over the two recitation rooms, will be deadened on the under...
...England. "In Rugby there are dormitories in which the boys sleep, and sitting-rooms in which they gather for social life, but each boy has his room for study, usually without even a single room-mate. In Eton, at least in the 'college,' the study room and bed-room are all one, each boy having his own solitary apartment...
...hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert of 'sweets.' The school provides each boy with beer; wines are not allowed. There is a very simple tea at six, and supper of bread and cheese and, I believe, cold meat, if one wants it, before going to bed...
...allowing the most scope to the character of the student. The aim was to foster the desire for learning. In the old country a man might almost be said to know before he was born what profession he was to follow. In this country a man on his death-bed could hardly tell what profession he had followed. Harvard was democratic in its methods. It cultivated the spontaneity of its students. The rich and poor stood together without discrimination, and among the most popular men in every class were some who worked their way through...