Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...take pleasure in recording the generosity of a public-spirited Junior, who has offered to pay one tenth of the debt on the Reading-Room, if nine other men can be found to subscribe equal amounts...
...recent regulation of the Faculty, a Johnson's Fire-Extinguisher has been placed in the Proctor's room in every entry...
...COMMUNICATION, which, unfortunately, we have no room to print in full, calls attention to the arctic temperature of our recitation-rooms on Monday mornings, disagreeable alike to the tutor and the pupils, and making our early recitations a severe penance after our enjoyment of domestic bliss the day before. It is well known that cold sharpens the temper and blunts the intellect, and we agree with the writer in thinking it would be well to have fires lighted in the furnaces Sunday afternoons, - unless, indeed, our janitors are deterred by religious scruples...
There is, decidedly, ample room for improvement in the present Thayer Club. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how it could be worse. We think that few would agree with a writer in the last number of the Advocate, in his statement that the board at the Club is as good as can be obtained outside for $6 a week; aside from the attendant disadvantages mentioned by the writer, and the additional one, we fear, of uncleanliness in preparing the food. There can be little doubt that all disorder will cease in our new refectory; indeed, if the principle...
...absurd rule abolished which prohibits bottled ale or porter at table. These tonics are positively needful to many of the students; and there can be little doubt but what it is better to drink these openly, and at the proper season, than surreptitiously in one's own room...