Word: moving
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...caused many new developments as well as disappointments. The drawers of the "double zero" are numerous, but refuse to consider themselves lucky. Candidates for the palatial Holworthy find their rooms in the attic of Grays, while some who were contented with the lowly upper rooms in Hollis expect to move up another story still and fix their habitation on the roof, and warm their chilled bodies around the comfortable chimneys...
...really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...
...probably all know them by heart. But there are many who have never played chess who think it the very essence of stupidity for two persons to sit, one on each side of a table, looking in silence at each other and the board, and finally making a move. But chess may be played for pleasure as well as for mental exercise. We sometimes "knock up," as well as play a ball match; and it is quite as good fun for most...
...room for indecision, the President and Faculty concluded that cigar-stumps were too tempting a sight to Freshmen to insure proper attention to their examinations, and forbade smoking, that inseparable concomitant of all deep reflection or literary work. The atmosphere being no longer congenial, it was decided to move, and a committee appointed for the purpose was finally, after much tribulation, enabled to report a favorable location in No. 5 Holyoke House, which was accepted by the society. This room, large, high-studded, and in every way suited to the purposes for which it is intended, has been fitted...
...this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In some circles a man's actions, good or bad, his words, and even his dress, are the objects of sharp ridicule and thoughtless jest, which often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without that groove becomes the object of unmerciful badgering from his more conventional companions. They do not stop to ask whether their friend's conduct is not worthy rather of imitation and praise than of roughing...