Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...went through the physical laboratories, the natural history museum, and the trunk-rooms. Hundreds and hundreds of trunks, side beside, occupy two large attic rooms. Trunks of all sizes and all varieties were there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity when we thought of the sorrow in the college when the day for final packing up came. Our sadness soon passed away, however, for at the next moment we were again in the corridor, and for the next two hours were talking Wellesley, Harvard, Athletics, Prayers and Greek. How much...
...Macaulay. Meeting an American friend, in reply to an inquiry as to his health, Prof, Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery-I have a big pain in my trunk.' He meant to say, 'I am quite sick, having a severe pain in my chest.' Probably the modern senior's Greek and Latin are about as 'sick' as Prof. Hubner...
...books used in the course include Adams' "Railroads, their Origin and Problems,' Farrar's "The State and its Relation to Trade," Black's "Letter to the New York Chamber of Commerce," and letters of Mr. Fink of the Trunk Lines Committee. Reference books include Blanchard, Atkinson and Cooley...
...interior arranged after the manner of the Roman atrium from which branch off the various corridors, officers and reception rooms. The building is several stories high, and terminates unexpectedly with the art-room under its eaves. The college museum is not one half as interesting as the trunk-rooms. The trunks of the students, "as much as five thousand," as one of the students said, are all gathered together in two large attics,-either one of which might easily be transformed into a skating rink,-and would occupy the space taken up by one of our college buildings...
...concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students or having obtained permission from the same. After some altercation, the unfortunate scientist went to his hotel, packed his trunk, and left town...