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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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DURING the summer extensive repairs are to be made on the College buildings. Special fees are to charged for the use of a room during vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...even thought of my collection as celebrated; and I seemed to have asked some young ladies to my room to hear the autophones of every one, from George Francis Train to my Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would...

Author: By W. G. T., | Title: AUTOPHONES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...would be a great saving of time and trouble if a list of the occupants of the Dormitories, with the numbers of their rooms, were posted on the ground-floors of the different entries. Strangers, especially, are apt to be bewildered; even if they do not forget the number of the room they are looking for, they generally get into the wrong entry, and wander aimlessly around until some one comes to their rescue. The difficult question to answer is, what material is stout enough to resist the attacks of the gentlemen who prowl around in search of trophies. Ordinary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...SHALER will give any required information concerning Nat. Hist. 1 and 4, the Post-Graduate courses in Physical Geology, the Post-Graduate courses in Palaeontology, and the summer school of Geology in his lecture-room in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (northeast corner), on Wednesday the 20th; also on Wednesday the 27th, at 11 A. M. - Bulletin Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...instructor here, delivered in such a striking manner that it is impossible to forget it: "Gentlemen, this college is not a young ladies' boarding-school." I am inclined to doubt this assertion whenever I hear the familiar words, "You may omit the following passage"; but a look around the room, and the sight of N.'s imposing siders and T.'s incipient moustache convince me of its correctness. Then I wonder why the omission was made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRUDERY. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

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