Word: seat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVER HALL will contain a lecture-room that will seat about three hundred people. Much want is now felt of such a room...
...Sophomores enter a horse-car; the first takes the only vacant seat, and the second sits in his lap. Presently a young lady enters, and the second Soph, rising, says, "Take my seat, madam." (Fact...
...commotion at the top of the hill draws my attention that way; a huge, unwieldy double-runner is prepared, and various men skilled in Latin and Greek seat themselves upon it. At first they go swimmingly, the weight of the dead languages carrying them bravely down the hill, but unfortunately they are taking the course at sight; a hidden root - they know not whence it came - stumps them, and they are spilled out promiscuously...
Early in the morning, before the Muezzin summons the faithful in our own beautiful Teheran, I was told to go to a small mosque which they call Shah-pehl. Faithful to the customs of my country, I entered and took my seat cross-legged on the floor, in a narrow passage which ran down the middle. I noticed that much applause followed this simple action, and have since heard that these young dogs (I will pollute the tombs of their forefathers) call this expression of feeling the uhoodhup...
...admire her wonderful crew, as does everybody else, and say 'Go over the water, friends, and clean out those blarsted Hinglishmen, and may God bless you!' We would n't pluck a single leaf from her well-earned laurels, and for the time must be content with a seat under the gallery. But when Harvard, with victorious self-assurance, steps one side to tread on our corns and tread on our noses as it were, . . . . we propose to stop it." This indignation is caused by our negotiations with Cornell and Columbia, and by something that has been said...