Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is not much formality about the social life at Vassar, as all the students live in one building. There is always considerable fun and enjoyment in the senior class, as a certain corridor is their exclusive property. They have a class parlor, also sacred to seniors, which is used as a room for both business and social meetings and is finely furnished. Outside of the senior class, the pleasantest life is the parlor life of the students. A few girls room alone, but a great majority have parlors, - five girls constituting a "family," each with her own room...
Sage College is in the form of a quadrangle. The front portion of the building is four stories in height and contains, on the first floor, a parlor, reception rooms, matron's rooms and several students' rooms; and, on the other floors, a library, preacher's parlor, music rooms, infirmary and dormitories. The south wing gives accommodations for the botanical department of the university, a lecture room, analyzing rooms, herbarium, professor's study and museum. Recent additions have greatly increased the facilities of the botanical department...
...architecture. It will be built in a spacious and thoroughly convenient style, and will present a highly artistic appearance. In height it will be three stories besides the basement, the latter having a dining-hall, kitchen, storerooms and boiler room. The first floor is to have a central hallway, parlor, smoking-room, library and matron's suite of rooms; the second floor will contain four suites of rooms, with a study and bedroom for each suite, and a large bath-room; the third floor will have three suites of rooms and a fine lodge room for the secret meetings...
...institution. One of these rooms is fitted up as a library and sitting-room. Low book-cases contain the modest collection of books. There are besides two recitation rooms, which Mr. Howells might call 'sincerely bare,' but which are amply comfortable for their purposes. In the sunny parlor, with its home-like belongings, had gathered Professor Hill's Rhetoric class. A half dozen young ladies sat about informally while the professor read his lecture. He had just delivered the same lecture to the sophomore class in the college, and adapted it to his present audience by means of frequent parentheses...
FURNITURE. Parlor, chamber, dining-room, library and office furniture. An immense stock in the warerooms of PAINE'S manufactory, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot...