Word: sanctum
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Last night was unusually dismal at the sanctum. The wind scurried about, shaking the doors, rattling the windows, and fluttering the files of exchanges. The Board had the blues. Once the Poet (Fact and Rumor Man) as he glanced up at the two-forked flame which sputtered despairingly from the single gas burner, allowed his melancholy spirit to express itself. "Our only light comes from a cloven hoof," he said, grimly...
...MASON.The meeting of the CRIMSON editors announced for yesterday has been postponed until to-day. It will be held in the sanctum at 1.30 P.M. This will be the final meeting of the year, and it especially desired that the full Board be represented...
...exchange which reaches our sanctum is so permeted with musty old fogyism and so little alive to the progressive tendencies of the age as the Yale Record. Yale has ever been noted for the zeal with which it clings to time honored institutions, even after they have passed their usefulness, and for the bitterness with which it resists any innovations; it is not, therefore, surprising that the college press should be tinged with the same spirit of subserviency to ancient things...
...thought-lessness of those musically-inclined students who persist in keeping up a vigorous course of piano or violin practice during examination time, greatly to the annoyance and indignation of their temporarily studious neighbors. But this year there seems to be a lull in this species of vexation. Our sanctum is still the receptacle of communications complaining of examination rooms too hot, or of examination rooms too cold: we are still urged to continue the agitation of the plank walk question, but, up to date, we have not received a single complaint about the piano fiend. Can it be that...
Another paper which has arrived early is the standard Dartmouth, and this comes out with a new cover which is very elaborate and tasteful in design, representing an editional sanctum and the college pine, side by side. This makes another paper which has followed the present custom of having decorated covers, and one which is certainly more pleasing to the eye. The other, exchanges so far are the same in appearance as last year...