Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...report of the directors of the Reading-Room will be issued in a few weeks...
...favorite scene of the day, we are even more cramped than at the Chapel. Probably no class would be willing to be the first to relinquish the old Rebellion Tree for any other, no matter how superior the location; so we must put up with the lack of room as best we can, as long as Holden Chapel stays where...
...ages and classes in their plays, as well as in their studies. In the one as in the other they are always under the eye of a master. The dormitories resemble the wards of a hospital. Thirty or forty beds are arranged with systematic precision in a single room. A master is also here, as in the recitation-room, or the play-ground, to maintain order. Whether they work, sleep, or play, the eyes of this Argus are ever upon them...
...been suggested to us by a graduate, who has been interested in looking up the associations connected with one of our oldest buildings, that it would be a pleasant and interesting custom if each occupant of a room were to inscribe his name, with some appropriate legend, on a tablet of some kind, when leaving it. These tablets might be kept under glass, on some convenient wall of the room, and, at a future time, might be very interesting. At Oxford is still shown, with pride, the autograph of Addison, rudely carved on a wall; and we hope that...
...there is one thing that has exercised the ingenuity of the Registrar and the Steward, it must be the assignment of college rooms. All the plans that have been tried and have failed could not, for obvious reasons, be described here; but now their number, like Brummel's neckties, must be increased by one more "failure." The various systems that have been followed at different times have many supporters, and it is strange to notice that a student's estimation of them changes as regularly as he passes from a lower class in college to a higher. The favorite plan...