Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose of enabling students to come into closer contact with Nature, and thus to make more critical observations of her works. Though hardly a year old, it can already be pronounced a success. When the students at this school for the first time came together in the lecture-room, there was a spirit of fault-finding prevalent among them, in consequence of the not over-sumptuous accommodations, but when they had listened to the introductory remarks of the Professor, made with his characteristic earnestness, discontent was turned into content, and all set cheerfully about their work, feeling that none ought...
...FATHER" who was reading the report of some college meeting, in which the names of many undergraduates and their classes were given, - Mr. - '74, Mr. - '75, etc., - asked his son how it was that so many of the students seemed to occupy the same room...
...night last week a Sophomore was spending the evening at the rooms of some lady friends. After delaying his departure as long as good manners would permit, he confessed his fear of being "gobbled" by the "Fresh." His fair friends agreed to accompany him back to his room. Accordingly, with three "high-school gum-drops" as his escort, he sallied forth; and so did the "Fresh"; and the result was that the "Soph" was pumped. He is now trying to persuade the unprejudiced public that he was going home with the girls. - Chronicle...
...most disagreeable things we must look forward to is a cold room; but we should not have nearly so much to complain of on this score if we would only throw up our windows now and then, and not try to raise the temperature of an atmosphere of carbonic-acid gas and tobacco-smoke. If we observe this simple rule, and are not very unfortunate in our choice of a room, we cannot deny that there is hardly any time so good for studying as a bright winter morning, or any time so good for reading as the "tumultuous privacy...
...rest. We have a whole continent before us; why not take a lesson of the English and German students? Where is the Harvard exploring party, the Canoe Club, the American Alpine Club? For in our forests and on our mountains and prairies, and not alone in a Saratoga drawing-room, should we seek change, and relief from our masters for the larger portion of the year, - Study and Society...