Word: discomforts
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...such a fashion that the walls are in danger of being considerably blackened. We understand that the Board of Directors are making efforts to remedy this trouble and we trust that they will be able to do so, and that in short time, for it is a serious discomfort to members of the hall...
...students in the class room. In Geology IV, when the steropticon is used, and the room consequently darkened, an excellent chance is given to the children in the course to cough, chuckle, stamp and whistle, and this chance was used to good advantage in the last lecture, to the discomfort of the instructor and others. As this course is opened to the entire college, it is unquestionable that the disturbance is caused chiefly by freshmen. Upper class men have come to learn that in college they are supposed to be gentlemen, and not conduct themselves like boys. Freshmen always have...
Everyone who saw the class races last year will remember the delay in starting, occasioned by the freshman tug boat. The freshmen did not see the class races, and will not remember it; but we trust that they will take our word for the discomfort and annoyance which their predecessors caused and endeavor to keep out of the way today. If the managers of all the tug boats on the course will bear this word of caution in mind, much unnecessary inconvenience may be avoided...
...elective system and the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel the athletic affairs at Harvard got into a bad way and we suffered several years of uninterrupted defeat at the hands of Yale. It is not too much to say that this fact gave and still gives more mental discomfort to the student body than almost anything that could have happened. The pain of it was not compensated by any evidence of the increase in numbers or the surprising general prosperity of the University. Our defeats are a thorn in the side of every Harvard man. For the past year...
...course if it could be shown that the three year course was in every other way desirable, the threatened discomfort of defeat in athletics would be a light consideration. We merely wish to point out a difficulty in the way of the proposed reduction, which has, we think, received too little attention at the hands of the advocates of the three year course...