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Word: bedding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sunny study and bed room in Thayer. Rent $125.00. Bonus given Apply at 8 Hollis or to Bursar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/17/1885 | See Source »

...Sale. - Bed-room furniture, mattress and springs. Inquire of janitor of Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/16/1885 | See Source »

...Sale. - Bed-room furniture, mattress and springs. Inquire of janitor of Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/15/1885 | See Source »

...gentle lady who pretends to make our beds, and who is supposed to sweep snd dust our rooms, has ever here at Harvard been honored by the sobriaquet of "goodey," a contraction of good wife, some say. At some colleges she is called a "sweep," at Cambridge, Eng., a "bed-maker," at Oxford, a "gyp," and at Bowdoin we believe, she goes by the name of "end-woman," because the entries are in the ends of the buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Slang. | 6/18/1885 | See Source »

...serve as a field for the individual expansion of the students. With regard to the colleges which still retain the ancient rigid requirements of classics, Mr. Curtis says "no college can justly plume itself upon superior fidelity to the classics because it insists that they shall be a bed of Procrustes upon which every student shall be equally stretched." And yet he does not see any very desolate outlook for the future of the classics. The classics will still be studied as long as there are students who have a fondness for such studies in languages "as come through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1885 | See Source »

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