Word: roome
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...neck. I had always understood that the Turks were low robbers at home, but I had no idea they retained that character in climes so distant from their own. My valuables were with difficulty crammed into the limited space, and I followed the official to a small dressing-room, which likewise looked amazingly like a prison-cell; for the walls were made half of wood and half of stout iron bars...
After a change to a more unpretending style of raiment, I again entered the dusky room, and thence, together with a fat old gentleman, I passed to the first bath-room. The other-world feeling was at first too much for me, and I sank into a chair and gasped for breath, while the fat old gentleman smiled sarcastically. He explained that he was an old bather; had taken a bath every week for years; had got rid of several diseases already through its means, and was now trying it for baldness. He seemed not to mind the heat...
...Worcester, has been chosen Chief Marshal for the occasion. E. Rockwood Hoar, the President of the Association of Alumni, will preside at the dinner, and Rev. Charles E. Grinnell, of Charlestown, at the Junior dinner. It is hoped that next year, instead of the present cramped space, the dining-room in Memorial Hall can be used...
...natural to find the imagination running away with the common sense, rather than a severe taste employing imagination as a tractable servant. There are many other schools, - that of the fireside dreamers, the easy rhymsters (who are closely connected with the babblers), and others, - but there is not room to speak of them, or of the really fine poets, who usually have something of the good qualities of all schools, and to whom the college papers are indebted for a large part of their popularity...
SCENE IN RECITATION-ROOM. Class reciting in Coppee's Logic...