Word: comfortableness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other names are equally indefinite. It shows itself mainly in a frozen demeanor among the upperclassmen toward each other as well as toward the freshmen. Freshmen not being accustomed to such strange ways of evincing affectionate feeling, are troubled by this coldness. We simply give them a word of comfort and warning. They must not be discouraged. The upperclassmen really think a great deal of them, and would show it if they dared. But they are afraid to oppose the college feeling. They have to be cold to their nearest friends even, or else the well-known spirit of indifference...
...leading out from here is the kitchen, where an enormous negro provides the meals. The other rooms on the ground floor are all used as bed-rooms, two men occupying each. Upstairs there are a number of other sleeping apartments, which impress one as being rather too small for comfort. In front of the house there is a flag-pole, upon which waves the Columbia blue and white, and near this is a little summer house, where the men usually sit in the evening...
...that the whole south side of the field is a perfect furnace for the whole of the afternoon, and the north side is equally as bad until five o'clock. Now these reserved seats are meant originally and chiefly for ladies, and ought therefore to have some pretence to comfort beyond that of having numbers painted on them at intervals of about eighteen inches. Instead of this, all ladies who come to the base-ball games are forced to choose between personal discomfort or some other person's discomfort; between watching the game in the full glare...
...Wallner of Norwich, Conn., would like to take with him on a walking tour in Switzerland, two or three young men. He would leave - say July 1, and return towards the end of September. He is a native of Geneva, and knows thoroughly how to travel with comfort, pleasure, and economy. He refers by permission to Prof. Lanman...
...Wallner of Norwich, Conn., would like to take with him on a walking tour in Switzerland, two or three young men. He would leave - say July 1, and return towards the end of September. He is a native of Geneva, and knows thoroughly how to travel with comfort, pleasure, and economy. He refers by permission to Prof. Lanman...