Word: desk
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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STROLLING into a friend's room last night, I found him seated at his desk, with his coat off, collar unbuttoned, hair rumpled, and on his face an agonizing expression of misery...
...maiden at the desk he said...
...small boy in the Library is called a page, and should always be thus addressed. The chairs near the Library desk are reserved for upper classmen...
...woman cannot help reading anything that looks like a love-letter, and I thought it prudent to enter in time to prevent my desk from being ransacked. After they had gone, I found that the nose of my bust of Goethe was broken, my O. K. cookies had been eaten, and a mustache had been painted on my favorite photograph of Mary Anderson. Do you wonder that I fell into a gloomy train of thought? 'This Class Day,' said I to myself, as I looked down upon the throng below, 'is a resting-point in a man's life...
STUDENTS are requested to remember that the chairs at the desk in the Library are for the use of the pages only...