Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much the same fault might be found with that room as with Massachusetts. We shivered a large part of the morning because one of the windows perched near the roof could not be closed by any means. Sever 37 is never noted as being a very warm place to sit but this morning it was terrible. It does seem as if the faculty might have some regard for our physical welfare when they are torturing our heads with a three hour examination. More care is needed and until such care is taken I think it no more than right that...
Those who sit near the entrance at the lower end of Memorial Hall, are made exceedingly uncomfortable by the cold draught whenever the door is opened. Could not one large screen be placed close to the door and directly in front of it, on each side of which one could enter. The present small screens are of no use whatever...
...complaint that Massachusetts Hall is insufficiently warmed has arisen again as it always does at this time. Year after year the students have been compelled to sit and shiver in that antique structure when they are being examined, and year after year they have asked that by some means or other the place be made more inhabitable. It is not conducive to a high standard to give men their examinations in a room whose temperature is about that of a refrigerator. Most men do not get so heated by brain work that they need an atmosphere well down towards zero...
This is what the Lasell Leaves, says about Memorial: "At dinner all reserve is cast off. Sallies of wit pass from one to another, and jokes are cracked at nay one's expense. All the men are on a level. Beck Hall and Holworthy sit at the table with College House, and pleasant remarks are exchanged by this representative of Boston elite, and that earnest, hard-working son of some country town...
...found. A Chinese lad in the south of the empire, determining to be distinguished, has only to go to Canton to gain a reward, if he deserves it. Entering a great hall called the Hoktoi, where tables are provided for more than 3,000 candidates, he can sit down and take his chance for the first degree; and supposing that he passes, is then qualified for a greater examination. This takes places in a huge building, or rather series of buildings, capable of accommodation upward of 10,000 students. On the day appointed, the youths who desire to pass enter...