Word: hot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give the look of comfort to a room which a fire does. But the plan has its advantages: A room can be heated in a very short time, and the temperature regulated easily, though I have always noticed that the rooms heated in this way are very hot and close." Nevertheless, we will venture to assert that no one who had endured the rigors of minus zero degrees in e. g. Weld, would ever venture to raise such objections if steam were to be introduced into our buildings. On the question of the desirability of steam-heat for dwellings...
...exit, cheeks hot burning...
...duty at the station in what respects the Harvard student of today differed from the student of years ago. "Well," he said, taking a puff at his cigar, "the students are a different lot altogether from what they used to be. There used to be a lot of those hot-blooded Southern fellows in college - fellows that had all the money they wanted, and who dared to do anything. They used to do things that were ingenious - things that required brain-work to invent; and lots of daring to carry out. Once they blew out the whole side of University...
...have speaking-tubes and electric bells from the students' rooms to the janitor's reception department. Why can't electric lights be placed around the yard, so that a man can safely venture out after nine o'clock - or in at two? I really see no reason why hot water cannot be brought to our rooms in the morning; the expense would be insignificant compared with the increased satisfaction of students. The authorities are singularly remiss in not providing Herdics to take us to our meals; it is barbarous to expect a man to walk this cold weather, - barbarous...
...reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform to the manners of him who yearns and is intense? Will they wander aimlessly through the yard with woe-begone expressions, clad in a gauze of glowing supremity and a hot-house poppy? The future alone can decide. But whatever may come, may we never see the day when the Memorial menu presents to the famished student "sunflower saute aux champignons," "poppy frite aux petits pois," "lily a la maitre d'hotel." AEsthetic costumes may be adopted at Harvard, but the divine...