Word: door
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...halls of the college buildings are put out at twelve o'clock; and again the sense of feeling is brought into play to aid the weary prodigal in finding his key, then in finding his key-hole, and finally in combining the two so as to open his door. Need these thinge...
...late it has become usual to form great generalisations about the origin of art, and the danger of following them in scientific research is that the student will leave the really important things that are at his door unexamined, while he follows out a theory that fletters his vanity and gives unbounded sway to his imagination and to his ingenuity. The safest method therefore is to base our observations and draw our conclusions from the actual historical facts at our disposal...
...talkers invariably arrive late and their seats are always far from the door. They are seen beyond a doubt (if they desire that), but unfortunately they are heard too. In time they reach their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that...
...current number of the Sportsman has a front page illustration representing the various out-door sports of the winter season...
...President and Tutors were authorized to break open a student's door at any time they were refused admittance, and the same officers could summon a sort of "posse comitatus" of the students to quell disturbances about the college. "None belonging to the college, except the President and Fellows, etc., shall by threats or blows compel a freshman * * * to any duty of obedience." "No undergraduate shall keep a gun or pistol in the college or anywhere in Cambridge." Provisions are also made against students fighting. With the conservatism and foresight which ever characterized the fathers of the college, these regulations...