Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have one thing to be devoutly thankful for, - my room has not been swept this fall. O, how I look back to those sweeping days of last year; how. I used to come to my room some cold day in January with a friend to have a chat before the fire, and find the door and windows wide open, and hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which...
...goody is beyond scolding; she is so very meek and small, that if I mildly remonstrate with her for having forgotten my room some morning, or for some other such trifling misdemeanor, she cowers and seems about to melt away in tears. This of course makes me feel myself to be a cruel tyrant; so I have to say that it is of no consequence and change the subject...
...Tuesday evening some person or persons unknown placed a bomb in one of the windows of University Hall, and exploded it. The window frame was literally blown to pieces, the woodwork of the room was greatly injured, and dozens of panes of glass were broken. That the perpetrators of this act were not students is possible; but it is hard to believe that any one who could not claim the popular indemnity that connection with a college gives to petty malefactors would have ventured to expose himself to the risk of detection. In all probability this explosion was contrived...
...Reading-Room has been re-opened this year with fairer prospects of success than ever before, since this year an attempt will be made to conduct it as far as possible on a "cash basis." The old policy of engaging papers before the subscriptions were paid has been abandoned, and the room was not opened till a sum had been subscribed sufficiently large to insure the payment of this year's bills. We hope that the present committee will be able to continue this business-like beginning. Now that the pictures have been removed, we hope that the College will...
...while the Reading-Room has recovered its footing, the Boat-Clubs are fast sinking into the slough of debt. It would seem that it is almost entirely through Mr. Blakey's generosity that the clubs will have boats for their crews to-morrow. When the present system was founded, in order to insure him what the originators of the plan considered a fair profit, he was guaranteed two hundred members, each paying $15 a year, in return for which he has provided boats enough to allow one third of the members to row at the same time. As there...