Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...parties in the literary department, to one of which almost every man there belongs. One party, the oldest, publishes the Chronicle; the other, at first started in self defence but now the dominant, controls the Argonaut. Many men take both papers, but the power behind the thorne or the sanctum is the party which holds the most stock...
...heart still brimming over with laughter and with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three rousing cheers for Tom Hammersmith! Three cheers more for Mark Sibley Severance, chronicler! Yes, and three more for 'Fair Harvard!' 'May they live long and prosper!'" Well done, Rip Van Winkle...
...days ago while kicking around under the sanctum desk for the subject of an editorial, the waste-basket was accidentally overturned. The exchange editor reached over among the litter and drew out some MSS. which, after some consideration and pleading on his part, we have decided to present to the public. Communications were very prevalent of course. The first one we happened to pick out read as follows...