Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HARVARD READING-ROOM. - President, A. J. Hopkins, '74; Secretary, F. H. Lombard, '74; Treasurer, C. C. Clarke, '74; Senior Director, F. C. Faulkner; Junior Director, J. O. S. Huntington; Soph. Director, F. C. McDuffie; Freshman Director, J. Q. A. Brett...
...whom about cleaning a room...
...good in a man. Culture, considered as an end, runs into egotism, self-conceit, and a "learned ignorance," which Socrates was the first to expose. It is of the first that Kenelm Chillingly is a type. It is the second that he takes pains to deride. We have no room to speak of the other characters of the book, - of Lilly, for whose death no one can lament, for by such a woman the hero would have been influenced in the direction of his weakness rather than in that of his strength; of Mivers, and his Londoner, so like...
From want of room we are obliged to defer notice of other books, from the same publishers, until our next number...
...hotels had been reported full for two days, and still every train brought its contribution to the increasing throng. The effects of this wholesale packing were visible at the breakfast-table. Those who had enjoyed the princely hotel accommodations of six in a small room affected a dignified negligence in dress, while those who had taken their lodging on billiard-tables and hotel sofas made no attempt to conceal their real feelings, and looked miserable enough...