Word: comfortable
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After fine kicking on both sides, the ball, from a kick by Moffat, was well stopped by a Wesleyan rusher, and the ball was had down too near our goal for comfort, but a fine run by Bird restored it to its proper place. Again there was kicking, very fine on both sides, Wesleyan also passing the ball with great judgment and accuracy, Saxe's punts for Wesleyan and Moffat's for Princeton being especially good. Then followed a good run by Lamar from a pass by Moffat, a run by Baker, and a fine catch by Belknap...
There is hardly a student in college-certainly not one rooming outside the yard, who would not be benefited by a new dormitory. The comfort of men who never have boarded, and never will board, at Memorial, depends on the success of the Dining Association to keep prices down and prevent the boarding places from being crowded ; and in the same way, the competition that another good dormitory would exert would lower the exorbitant rent that rooms in any desirable locality now command. We must have another soon, and it is certainly better for the college to get the income...
...ideal man of really lofty soul, utterly absorbed in the pursuit of things not seen, and by no means with reference to the wants of the ordinary American man of our time, whom we have to get to fill nearly all our salaried positions, with a wife who likes comfort and expects some share in the social life around her, and children who chafe, as all children do, under poverty, and like a taste of the good things that are going. The result has been simply that the leading lawyers hardly ever go on the bench, and that the ablest...
...plate" system of photographing, which has been recently adopted at Pach's studio, requires a sitting of only two or three seconds, so that the groups are now taken quicker and with more comfort to the sitter than were the single photographs...
...there is no doubt that the practice will presently be laid to the charge of Harvard "snobbishness," and, therefore, although the reform is open to the almost fatal objection of originating at Yale, it would seem necessary for Harvard, too, to adopt it at whatever sacrifice of independence and comfort on our own part...