Word: roome
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard University has been printed. Mr. Winsor discusses the subject of catalogues, and speaks of the improvement of the Library bulletin, of the growth of the Library, and of the work done by the Library service. He recommends that some arrangement be made for the use of the reading-room in the evening...
After this work succeeded work, poetry as well as prose; and some of his exquisite lyric strains are the burden of the recitation-room and the stage, - raised by one harmonious voice from man, woman, and child. He was Minister to the Friendly Islands in 1823, and occupied nearly every position of honor that art, literature, and politics could offer...
...abuses, I wish that they would unite in using their influence upon certain under-class men who seem to have forgotten that the day called in the catalogue Seniors' Class Day is not exclusively for them. I know that it requires some generosity to give up a desirable room to persons who may be almost strangers, but it also requires much selfishness to refuse to do so. As a last act of courtesy to the graduating class, as an effort to preserve the pleasant features of a time-honored festival, and as a means of justifying the request...
...roomed during a part of his college course with his classmate, Mr. T. G. Appleton, in the Brattle House, occupying the room on the ground floor to the left of the entrance. He became a member of a college club, called the "Knights of the Square Table," which it seems indulged in supper-parties at Fresh Pond and Gallagher's. But Motley, though a genial companion to his intimate friends, was far from being universally popular. "He did not care to make acquaintances, was haughty in manner and cynical in mood." He cared little for the society of young ladies...
...form. We do not wish to blame them for this, for it is only natural to be unwilling to go through the form of a recitation, or to deliver a lecture, for the benefit of only a small portion of the regular division, especially when the temperature of the room is such that an overcoat is decidedly comfortable. Nothing begins in earnest until Monday; those who do come back do not think of doing any work, but spend their time in grumbling at having to come back before the week is out, and in regretting that they have come back...