Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American, so undemocratic and priggish as to impress their students that they are the favored ones on this earth. These boys are the most to be pitied of any class in college, since they are isolated, although it be by their own choice, and receive little comfort or enjoyment in college life. They are not in the current, so as to speak, but sit upon the bank untouched by the life that flows so joyously by them...
After "Schneider's Band" by the Glee club and three cheers for Holden, Leeds, and Adams, the toastmaster introduced Mr. Garrison. He urged that all men should give up their personal comfort to try for the teams, train, or at least applaud on the field. "Imogene Donahue" was followed by a short speech from Dr. F. M. Weld, '60. He said that he understood Harvard's recent action to mean that she is unwilling to trust her teams to a committee composed of outsiders. He had no fears about Harvard's being left alone. Mr. S. E. Winslow...
...everything is done automatically. The heating is done by steam from the boilers back of AlumniHall and circulated by two lowpressure engines. The rooms are to be frescoed in warm cream and reddisb-brown tints which will give them a very handsome appearance and add materially to their comfort. In every way the building is to be as near perfection as it can possible be made...
...freshmen eleven had a perfect day for their game at New Haven Saturday. It was a little too cold for the comfort of spectators, however, and the number of people in attendance was smaller than it usually...
...possible. As for the unfairness of our protesting four of Princeton's men on purely professional grounds we fail to see the strength of Princeton's objection since a like privilege belongs to her. It looks very much as if the shoe pinched too much for Princeton's comfort...