Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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UNFORTUNATELY for those students who take their courses, there are several instructors who pay no attention to any one's comfort but their own. This has been especially noticeable of late, when, by not posting a "cut" on the bulletin board, the professors have obliged students to tramp up to the Botanical Garden, through the mud, only to find that there was no lecture. It seems to us that when recitations are held so far away as this, or at the Zoological Museum, due notice ought to be given if the instructors intend beforehand to be absent. But they...
...little to regret. We regret that Dr. Bellows was not confirmed in his election as an Overseer. We regret, too, that while doing so much for our welfare in great matters, the authorities have not been able to keep pace in those little attentions upon which our our personal comfort so much depends. We leave with the hope that it may fall to the lot of our successors to chronicle another year of like prosperity...
...heated, and the entries as well. Could steam be introduced simply for the purpose of raising the temperature in very cold rooms, or in case one's fire goes out, it would be well enough; but on grounds of health alone, not to mention the cheerfulness and comfort that an open fire affords, we should much regret to see our grates done away with. Heating the entries must not be expected, we fear, before all the buildings have fire-escapes, before there are plank walks in the Yard, and until there is some way of getting to Boston in less...