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Word: room (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Mashem," she said, as she led the way, "this is the room where we used to sit together like brother and sister when you were fitting for college. I was a silly school-girl then, but am I not studious and sober now? I have entered the Annex without conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIALOGUE UPON COLLEGE HAPPINESS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...succeed. Again, why have any pictures that don't 'amount to much'? Your wall-paper, which is not intolerably ugly, is better than a bad print." This is what I thought. I only said, "Though the Art Club does not generally admit Freshmen to its hilarious meetings, your room is evidence that your taste is already equal to that of most of its members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHAMBER OF HORRORS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHAMBER OF HORRORS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...Boston Herald speaks of Turner's Liber Studio-room sketches as a valuable book for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...flees to his real recitation-room in U. 23, and finds his section gone; time, 10.06. Grind on Sleet and the swell Seniors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

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