Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prize of a saw-horse to be presented to the laziest individual in town was secured, through the exertions of the Academy students, for their distinguished Professor of Mathematics; also that the Academy ball-grounds have been extended; and that the Faculty intend (less vivid future) to establish "Amusement Rooms," where the students may enjoy the privileges of a reading-room, billiard parlors...
...week. The Corps completely fills the Gymnasium, not excepting the bowling-alley, and so hinders the non-drillers from exercising. Our winters, during which the Corps must drill under cover, are so long that they take up the greater part of the college year, so that with little room, and a ventilation that keeps many away altogether, the need of a new gymnasium is very urgent...
There needs little to be said to show the injustice of this practice, and we wish it were diminishing rather than increasing. The fact of living in a desirable room for three or four years ought to satisfy in itself, for it certainly does not confer the right of considering the room an heirloom to be handed down in perpetuity. But even worse than making over rooms to one's friends is the bartering for and selling of such rooms, often at a scarcity value. In condemnation of this we think nothing too severe can be said. It is difficult...
...feel it our duty to say a few words for the purpose of rectifying an abuse to which our attention was called some time ago, and which has been rapidly increasing within the past few weeks. Quite a number of the students who frequent the Reading-Room have shown their eagerness to pluck the fruit of the tree of knowledge by cutting from magazines and papers whatever has appeared to them as useful information, or has simply struck their fancy...
...best parts of their reading matter. It is astonishing to us how any man who has the least respect for himself can filch articles from papers, knowing all the while that he is depriving other men of their share in the privileges to which, as members of the Reading-Room Association, they are entitled. Furthermore, this mutilation spoils not only the piece from which the extract is taken, but also whatever there may be on the other side of the leaf; so that the readable articles of a magazine which happens to be particularly attractive, after passing through the hands...