Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mahogany table was yesterday placed in the reading-room in Dane Hall by means of the south window...
...half the men in college live here for four years without attempting to adorn their rooms in the slightest. The walls are bare, the floor, or carpet, worn and often times very dirty, the furniture of a most unattractive nature, and no taste whatever displayed in the choice of window hangings. Now it may be said that it is not for all of us to be apostles of "sweetness and light," or even to be true disciples of Oscar Wilde; but it is possible for every man with a little care to keep his room clean and tidy...
...raised her head," "she polished her glasses" (common), "she listened to his reasons," "she lifted her eyelids," "she soothed her fears," "she checked her curiosity," "she moved her chair," "she joined in his laugh" (very common), "she broke her usual custom," "she stretched her neck out of the window," "she took up a small candle," "she threw on a light shawl," "she roughened her wrinkles," "she listened to her bird," "she kindled a fire in the brazier...
...least of all the many devices in use, is the broken chair. There are many of this class; yea their name is legion. Some of them are patriarchs in which sat the professors of old; some of them are goody's chairs, rickety with many years of window-washing; some are quaintly covered with the initials of great men gone before, and all are on their last two or three legs. These chairs give rise to many amusing incidents which enliven the otherwise weary round of lecture-going. Now and then they give way all at once like the "famous...
...sure no outsiders are admitted to the rowing room itself, but the uncurtained window in the door has never been an obstacle to any outsiders' view of the men at work. The statement "that Harvard's having a professional trainer was not known until a few days before the race" looks the important basis of truth, for the fact was known to the undergraduates and all men in Boston, and vicinity interested in our success on the water. Last year's victory was hardly due to professional training no matter how important it may have been...