Word: floors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...floor which is smoother than glass...
...Class-Day Committee would ask that all students rooming on the quadrangle, who occupy ground-floor rooms which do not face on the Yard, be particularly careful to lock their windows on Class-Day evening. This precaution is absolutely necessary, both for protection of students' property, and for rendering the roping in of the Yard effectual...
...Freshman crew we can only say that they need coaching, and a good deal of it. Their new boat is of better model than the last, as the floor runs farther towards the ends; but the men in the boat seem to improve but slowly. The crew is composed of good material, but needs more polish. The stroke waits a little at the beginning of the recover, - a very bad fault, - and there are many other failings among the crew. The swing together is not so perfect as it might be. No. 3 does not pull his stroke through...
...stood in the doorway for a moment, looking about the room; then he took his cigar out of his mouth and spat upon the floor; then, having replaced the stump, he staggered down the whole length of the table, and lurched into a chair at the other end of the room; and then, at last, he saw fit to take off his hat, which he threw to a table near him. Having taken his seat, he stared at the company for a while, expectorated a second time, and finally, calling the waiter, remarked "Brandy!" in a voice whose twang rivalled...
...business-like than anything we have at Harvard. Each Society owns the building it occupies; at least, I infer that Oxford does. The President of the Cambridge Union writes that their "present building is large and extensive, and embraces a library, debating-hall, closets and offices on the ground floor; a magazine room and writing room on the second floor; and a smoking and coffee room and reference room on the third floor. It is thus a kind of undergraduate club, but differs from ordinary clubs in maintaining a 'literary' or 'intellectual' character." The entrance-money is one pound...