Word: hideous
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...squeaky boots patrolled the room; other gentlemen came in with parties of ladies, and all talked in hoarse whispers which echoed through the hall; men with arms full of books crossed and recrossed the room with heavy tread; proctors, accompanied by sisters and cousins, helped to make things hideous; the nymphs of the Library flitted about the alcoves overhead, and cast furtive glances down upon the busy bookworms. My head began to swim; the page grew blurred...
...building which had a hideous name is now called "Beck Hall...
DOGS cannot be brought or kept in any room in a college building, or in Dolton's or Little's blocks, or the dormitory with the hideous name...
...injunction has been put upon the occupation of the building with the hideous name, but whoever takes a room there will be notified by the college authorities that he moves in at his own risk, and that rooms so recently plastered should not be occupied...
...CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford and Cambridge Journal is much disturbed by the fact that certain undergraduates will persist in dining in Hall in "the hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else...