Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...annual lecture before the Harvard Natural History Society will be delivered in the lecture-room of Boylston Hall, on the evening of the 20th inst, by Professor Edward S. Morse of Salem. Professor Morse is an interesting lecturer, as well as a learned naturalist. The revival of these lectures, which for the past few years have been omitted, is a subject of rejoicing to all lovers of natural science...
BEFORE me, neatly pasted in the book which contains the printed and written evidence of the pleasures and pains of three years' college life, there, between a summons and a play-bill, lies the slip of paper whereon the Steward informs me that I may retain my old room for yet another year. The wording of this, to me, important document is formal to the last degree. The gentleman who gave it me, too, showed no appreciation of the importance of the transaction, but was gazing over my shoulder the while at a couple of Freshmen laden with checks...
...give a punch he did, and that, as near as I could afterwards ascertain, compounded of the most dissimilar and deadly ingredients. The horrors of that night I shall never know, for I passed the time in study with a friend in C. H. I returned to the room in the morning, however, in time to wake Sam for the examination. I did not in the least mind finding three fellows in my bed and two on the lounge, but took these little matters as a matter of course. Poor Sam! that night was a finishing touch to his chances...
...quiet games at chess with the proctor on Saturday nights; for the shadows are growing long on the graceful curves of my time-warped floor, and the crowd is hurrying to evening Commons. I am afraid I have but feebly expressed my regard for my old room; but do not some of you feel the same liking for your temporary homes? I feel sure that I shall always like to return to mine, and I intend to exert my influence towards holding the Commencement meetings of our Class...
...does not reflect what an awful thing it is to be on the fence between fear of God and fear of a condition in the Calculus. "There is a rumor abroad that Harvard will give a free Glee Club concert at Saratoga next July, in the regatta ball-room." For enterprising discovery of items, commend us to the Yale Record...