Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conversation at the club where they talk metaphysics turned on the affections. Spake a Senior: "What do you know about love, Miss H.? Do you believe there is any such thing as love?" "O," says she, "you come around to my room some time, Mr. B., and we'll talk it over." - Michigan University Chronicle...
...College is to have the Boat-house on condition of paying off the existing mortgage and fixing up the second story with two hundred or more lockers, a bath-room, with shower-baths, bath-tub, hand basins, etc., and a reading or sitting room. There are to be reserved for the University Crew their present room up stairs and one compartment down stairs...
...cost to the College, the College repairing. This, or something very like it, Mr. Blakey is willing to do, if the clubs decide, in the next year's agreement, to pay him $ 16.50 a m m, instead of $ 15.00. That is $ 1.50 for the use of lockers and bath-room...
...Record of May 19 notices a fire which broke out in one of their college buildings on Sunday last. Some students had been smoking cigarettes just before church, and during their attendance at divine service the stumps, which appear to have been thrown into an easy-chair, set their room on fire. An impromptu fire-brigade succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but the room was rendered almost uninhabitable. It is a lesson worth remembering. While cuspidors and ash-pans still exist, it is to be hoped that easy-chairs will not again be called upon to take their place...
...bidding the Tub transformed itself into a two-story French-roofed dwelling-house, with all the modern improvements, furnished most elegantly from top to bottom, while through the windows Diogenes himself could be seen, playing ball-pool upon the magnificent billiard-table which graced the second-story front-room...