Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Corporation, or through some other mode of control, but preferably through ownership. It would necessitate a great financial outlay and a large special endowment for the Corporation to carry out the work of re-organization, to bring its present dormitories up to a reasonable standard of modern comfort, and then to be enabled to rent at reasonable rates; and it would prevent a part of the coming Harvard generations from living up to the degree of luxury which their purses could afford, but it would insure for all time a finer undergraduate life at Harvard...
...learned on the bench to any extent. One remembers the saying of an old Harvard man, who as first substitute lingered many weary days consecutively on the bench, that he wished the management would change the padding in his uniform so that it would be of more service and comfort in a sitting capacity...
Leave of absence for the year 1904-1905 was granted to Professor Paul H. Hanus, Assistant Professor George Santayana, and Assistant Professor Comfort A. Adams...
Against the suggested plan of holding the Class Day and Commencement exercises in the Stadium, there are at least a few practical objections. Inclement weather would have a greater effect than before in detracting from the comfort of all, inasmuch as some of these exercises, now held in Sanders, would be transferred to a spot unprotected from the rain and the chill of the wind; and the older graduates, who have the very first right to the enjoyment of Commencement, would suffer the most. The Stadium is also at no small distance from the Yard, where both on Class...
...there at that time is not thoroughly desired and appreciated. Furthermore, these are precisely the men for whom, academic work in the evening is perhaps least unusual. To be sure, the reading room of Gore Hall is open until 10 o'clock. Unhappily; however, in the matters of ventilation, comfort and aesthetic encouragements, the reading room in Gore Hall is monumentally depressing. On the whole, therefore, one can but hope that the University may yet hit upon some measure of economy rather less undignified than the closing of its pleasantest library during some of the best hours of the working...