Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From this brief sketch of the main features of Paris university life, so repugnant to our ideas and notions of such a life, I am sure all will agree with me when I affirm that for mental and physical comfort there is no place like Fair Harvard. Yours...
...hope that no one will be frightened by this title. We desire not to express an unreasonable ill-humor, but merely to mention a few trifles around the Yard which interfere seriously with the comfort of the undergraduate. And we have chosen a title which expresses our feelings...
...feel sure that if some of these questions could be answered by rendering them superfluous, the comfort of the undergraduate and the peace and tranquillity of the College would be greatly enhanced...
...main hall at the gymnasium is too often too cool for the comfort of those exercising...
...whenever he wants them. But he can pick them up, one or two at a time, and so can replace, one or two at a time, the new waiters whom he was obliged to hire, but who have proved inefficient. This winnowing process takes time, and as one's comfort at Memorial depends entirely on one's waiter, a few of us must suffer for the time being. But in three weeks or a month Mr. Balch expects to be rid of these inefficient waiters...