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...these garments when one has arrived at the lecture room is often a puzzie. There are very few rooms where there is any chance to hang up coats and hats; the result is that a man has to sit beside his damp clothing throughout an hour, much to the discomfort of both himself and those about him. We see no reason why, in the smaller rooms at least, suitable hooks should not be placed in convenient places so that one's health and clothes may be better preserved...
...warrant an exposure of their ungentlemanly conduct. The nuisance of which I speak consists chiefly in reading and rattling newspapers and carrying on conversations distinctly audible to every one about. These actions are not only annoying to the instructors, but they are also the cause of much discomfort to every one else in the room. The men who behave thus cannot be aware of the injustice of their conduct, and the one way to suppress such proceedings is for their classmates not to treat the matter so leniently by imputing the disturbances to ignorance and improper training. It is high...
...York by the steamer "Pilgrim" of the Fall River Line. Four or five cars were specially reserved for the men through the foresight and care of Mr. Palmer, and they were speedily packed with as jolly a crew as ever went forth from these classic halls to discomfort Yale and back their alma mater. As the train moved out of the depot, cheer after cheer went up from every voice, the manly basses of the upper-classmen being occasionally interspersed with the timid squeak of the freshmen. People stared and glared and wondered what it all meant, but when informed...
...temperature at Cambridge is so agreeable during that part of the summer season given to this course, and the gymnasium is so large and airy, with unusual facilities for bathing, etc., that exercise will be attended with no discomfort...
...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 of the sun in silent anguish, and the alternative of raising their parasols, to the utter annihilation of the persons behind them...