Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student committee on preparing an address to the alumni in behalf of the fund for the new gymnasium have sent the address, which was printed in the News a few days ago, to all the Alumni Associations and to many individual alumni. Already several replies have been received expressing warm sympathy with the movement and giving assurance of material aid. The executive committee of the New York Association have ordered the address printed and sent to each member. Mr. Johnes, '73, who has already volunteered to pay the architect's bill is a member of this Association...
Massachusetts was then in part a dormitory and the basement of Harvard was used for recitation rooms. Here James Russell Lowell heard classes and lectured on his favorite topics. In Holden, on warm days, the adhesive black-painted benches used to hold the students in fixed attention during lectures and render rapid departure impossible...
...year always suggests, on the manner of conducting examinations. We have already published some advice to proctors, which doubtless will not be heeded. We hope in addition that the rooms where examinations are held will be kept at a respectable temperature. Neither a very cold nor a very warm room is favorable to prolonged mental activity. Again we hope that instructors, proctors, and students will treat their examinations fairly. "College honor" is no thoughtless phrase, and it should appeal to everyone who would be called a "College...
...Lawrence, of St. Johns Chapel has given his open approval of the prayer petition in very warm terms...
...field in which to go harvesting; but, nevertheless, yard, college, and buildings are grossly misused in these several ways. At this time complaints against beggars, impostors and peddlers are particularly common about college. We believe that students in the college buildings cannot be too cold in receiving, or too warm in dismissing, the peddlers and beggars that come to their rooms. Extreme lack of cordiality is the only sure way of getting rid of these objectionable callers...