Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could have been procured. There is hardly a pitcher in the dormitories which does not require cleansing at the end of the week. But we cannot expect reform in a matter which touches so closely the question of dormitories; and while we look and hope for the period of comfort which will follow the appearance of the new dormitory, we only desire at present the renovation of our pumps...
...common steel pen. The blackened desks and streaked floors give ample proof of the catastrophes that have overtaken these inkstands in times past. An American stylograph would be an untold blessing to the German student, and somebody will undoubtedly make a great fortune by introducing that instrument of comfort and safety, unless, indeed, the conservatism of the Germans should resent and refuse such an improvement. After the student has made his preparation for work he chats with his fellows till the professor comes. The professor is always greeted by applause, or by a rising in the seats. He comes...
...There was reason for the use of Latin in the earlier catalogues. At that time students had college names, "just as the monks had their monastic names," and were not permitted to speak English within college limits. "When Comfort and Giles, in running "across the college yard, chaffed each "other in their mother tongue, Consolantius and Aegidius were forthwith "summoned to the president's office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan...
...sang with them whenever she chanced to know the air, made things quite social, and the young men showed their appreciation by singing "Sweet Dreams Ladies," in an off hand manner, just as the one lone representative of the fair sex was unromantically, she hopes gracefully, ascending to the comfort of an upper berth. This was the only familiarity, surely a mild one, and is it not credible to any society, to any country that such a thing as this can be done? That girls and women can go safely, comfortably, happily from one end of this country...
...young gentlemen were Chicagoans. Yet it does not follow that they, as a class, are more thoughtful of a lady's comfort-although many of them claim so-than the men of the east. Never-theless it is undoubtedly true, that ladies can travel alone better in the west than in the east, for as a far western said. "We have not that super-abundance of females as with you, therefore when they do come, they are regarded with more respect." We have always believed that ladies can travel alone anywhere in this country, with very little trouble or danger...