Word: comfortless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exceeds that asked by other colleges, but which seems to follow no fixed rules. For instance, one hundred and seventy-five dollars is asked for a room on the ground-floor of Thayer, and also for one on the fourth floor. Considering the best of the rooms are cold, comfortless and undesirable, such a price is simply out of all proportion. As a result, there are now vacant nineteen rooms in this one building; for no one - not even a Freshman - will pay so dear, when he can be much more comfortably lodged elsewhere for half the price. This...
...those of the students who formerly attended the repasts spread in the bare and unpretending, nay, somewhat comfortless, salle a manger of the Thayer Club, their present quarters are particularly grateful; and yet, as their eyes recover from the dazzling and bewildering effect of stained-glass windows, groined roof, high wainscot, oaken floor and tables, venerable portraits, armorial plates, saucers, and sugar-bowls, and ebony-skinned attendants, the still, small voice of the stomach makes itself heard, whispering to them that what satisfies the eye and elevates the aesthetic taste does not completely appease the longings of the poor animal...