Word: bedroom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were to admit personalities as scientific or argumentative (which Heaven forbid), we might conceivably, as a pastime, consider the Morris-chair and bedroom-slipper variety of economist in the same breath with the statesman and economist who is building a great nation on a new co-operative principle, might we not, and declare our peculiar preference? J. LESLIE HOTSON...
...Widener Library, near they northwest corner of the building, has been and is still in the process of being converted into one of the most attractive rooms in the building. Amongst the furniture which adorns the room are five beautiful old mahogany book-cases which formerly stood in the bedroom of the late Harry Elkins Widener '07. Of these five cases, the one in the east corner of the room contains only those books which have been written by either active or retired members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who are at present alive. In the case...
...would be hard to exaggerate; but there are multitudes of Harvard men who will recall with a shudder their plunge into College life by way of Memorial Hall, or unfriendly boarding places, and the hopeless loneliness of the early days, without friends or ties, and a bedroom in some cheap frame boarding house. After these new buildings are initiated it will no longer be possible to tell the old story of the Harvard professor who accosted a wistful Freshman and asked if he were looking for some one. "Not I," was the apocryphal response; "I don't know anybody this...
...rooms and studies in all the dormitories are typically colonial. The studies have broad windows with built-in window seats and the finish is white enamel in bedroom, study and bath room. All the doors are wide and white, with heavy brass handles and on the outside doors are hospital thumb-latches. The large general rooms have ample air space, and the bedrooms and studies are nine feet high...
...contract for supplying and installing the furniture in the Freshman dormitories has just been let to the Co-operative. Each study is to have one desk, one bookcase, two chairs; and each bedroom is to have one bed, one chiffonier, one small table and one chair. The furniture will be fumed oak, a different shade to each dormitory, and it has been especially designed to satisfy student needs...