Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hall embraces a library, a dormitory and lecture rooms. As the new building will make the lecture rooms and the library superfluous, these rooms will be changed into sleeping apartments, and the whole of the interior of Divinity will be renovated so as to give each student a separate bed-room and study. The new building will be ready for occupancy in the fall...
...dress worn at night should be loose and light, and to make such a garment comfortable, the bed-room must not be kept at too low a temperature...
...Harvard College on fire, and it was with the utmost difficulty they savd the other Buildings. Stoughton was on fire an Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except a bed or two, the whole Library, except some books lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation, were demolished, the whole apparatus. Mrs. Hancock who lodgd out on account of the storm lost everything except the cloths she had on, this is a most terrible accident, this Library in which were so many valuable...
...casus belli, - case of our own bell. If we may be pardoned for interference in a matter which, strictly speaking, is none of our business, we would suggest that a proctor be delegated to sit up nights with the bell, and see that it does not throw of its bed clothes. Nay, further, we would be pleased to start a subscription paper for providing the ancient annunciator on Harvard Hall with hot "Toms and Jerrys," and other comforting liquids, during the continuance of the present cold snap. We trust that the college will chime in with our sentiments, since...
...Another improvement that might be made, would be to put in a thousand lamps, although with running capacity for nine hundred, thus giving many of the rooms as many as five lamps, which would be all that could possibly be required. As many of these would be in the bed rooms, certainly a hundred of them, there would never be any danger of having more than nine hundred out of the thousand lamps running at a time...