Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book room...
...books are arranged each morning on the shelves of the library in a systematic way so that a man has no difficulty whatever in finding any book he wants. But before an hour has passed whoever wants a book must search every shelf, table and corner of the reading-room before he can be sure that the book he wants is not in use. If each man should take the very slight trouble necessary, and replace the book in its proper place after using, he would save an infinite amount of annoyance and trouble to other men and would benefit...
This matter has been a subject of complaint-every year since I have been in college, and it does seem to me that in a matter so trifling, men might exercise a little care and make all the relations in the reading-room more agreeable than they...
...shall wear his hat in the college yard unless it rains, hails or snows, provided he be on foot and have not both hands full" ; "No freshman shall speak to any member of the upper classes with his hat on, or have it on in an upper-classman's room, or in his own room when upper-classmen be there" ; "All freshmen shall be obliged to go on errands for upper classmen, but only out of study hours." Life must have been a solemn matter in those days, for Latin was the only language in use in the college yard...
...unreasonable in our demands and complaints. In the first place the danger from fire is great. Gore Hall itself-I do not speak of the wing containing the stack-is anything but fire-proof. It is, perhaps, not generally known, that those apparently substantial columns in the waiting-room are in reality hollow, and composed for the most part of laths and plaster. Secondly, financial considerations stand in the way; for the recent bequests to the library were all made with special purposes in view, and the overseers cannot legally divert the funds from those purposes...