Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of the Annex has framed and presented a number of valuable photographs gathered during a visit in Spain, and a lady interested in the education of women has covered the floor of the principal parlor with rich and heavy rugs, which add very much to its comfort and appearance. - Cambridge Tribune...
...want of spicy items for his "Local Column." What a strong argument for co-education these considerations suggest! Supposing college journalism worth encouragement, we can hardly find a better way of encouraging it than by admitting women to the colleges. Under co-education, a college editorship meets with comfort and ease, and has a far wider field for the development of that genius, which the college editor never lacks. And what if the fair co-eds are eligible to positions on the papers! We, in the east, can hardly conceive how intense the competition for positions on western journals must...
...have obtained our higher ends, however, at the cost of comfort and convenience, our slender means having been expended upon the intellectual rather than the material needs of the institution. We have been crowded into four small hired rooms, never snfficient for our purpose either in point of space, ventilation, or general accommodation, and these rooms we have now wholly outgrown...
...acting itself can naturally not be spoken of from a professional point of view; that even the most gifted amateur can learn much from the worst and stupidest professional is a truth which no one can gainsay. Yet it was a rare comfort last evening to find that every member of the large cast really knew what he was talking about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate...
...moderately warm weather of Saturday afternoon, tempered by a cooling breeze from the east, was almost perfect for lacrosse playing, and the Harvard team, as they came on Jarvis at 3 o'clock, dressed in their new uniforms with sleeveless white jerseys, looked the picture of comfort. The Princeton men, in their uniforms of black jerseys and white breeches, contrasting well with that of their opponents, looked warmer than our men. The composition of the two teams was as follows: Princeton, goal, H. Hodge; point, McKechnie; cover-point, Nicholson; defence field, Ranney, Bell, S. Hodge; centre, R. Hodge; attack field...