Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxonian lately visiting Harvard expressed amazement at what seemed to him the utter disregard of the comfort of the student in the matter of food and in other respects. In case of sickness the student's position is simply wretched. Except some Gampish old bed-makers, apparently indebted for their position to their ugliness and squalor, not an attendant is visible between early one morning and early the next, and there is no kitchen whence a student can get as much as a bowl of soup or slice of bread and butter. The whole system, or rather want of system...
...second winter meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association is to be graced today with the presence of the fair lady friends of the college. Every possible care has been taken for their comfort, and everything bids fair for a most enjoyable day. The games will doubtless be well contested, and the athletes who have entered the lists will certainly be spurred to their best efforts with the knowledge that their victories will be greeted with the favoring smiles of their fair admirers...
...much cherished liberty to be allowed to walk on the grass, but it seems as if we might sacrifice one comfort so far as not to continually use the same path. In this way the appearance of the lawns would be greatly improved without serious inconvenience to anyone...
...minds of many occupants; and, consequently, complaints are beginning to be made of some minor discomforts and inconveniences arising from steam-heating. Complaint is made of the noise; and one Yale man writes: "They frequently leak all over the carpet, and they don't give the look of comfort to a room which a fire does. But the plan has its advantages: A room can be heated in a very short time, and the temperature regulated easily, though I have always noticed that the rooms heated in this way are very hot and close." Nevertheless, we will venture to assert...
...comfort for the coming no-license days. We have Bacon's authority for it that "Reading maketh a full...