Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With this issue our labors for this term are over. We leave our cold sanctum with a hearty cheer for the CRIMSON and turn our attention to thoughts of vacation and home. We would that all students could share our pleasure in Christmas anticipations, but we suppose some few are compelled to remain in Cambridge, and seek mental strength from the library, and physical satisfaction from the Christmas dinner at Memorial. For the Jester and our associate the Advocate, we would wish all the blessings of the season and renewed strength of wit and literary acumen. We rejoice...
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...
...sanctum is a happy...
...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...