Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...east will complete the square. The new library building is to be of red brick with brown sand stone trimmings, and will contain four lecture rooms, a stack which will hold 40,000 volumes, and a reading room with a large open fire place, thus adding much to the comfort of the readers. The building will cost about $40,000 when completed and will supply a want of which students in the Divinity School have long felt the need. At present Divinity Hall embraces a library, a dormitory and lecture rooms. As the new building will make the lecture rooms...
...morning, would have to breakfast at least as early as nine, and would probably be quite unable to attend chapel, and Brown, to be in Boston and in his seat at quarter before eight in the evening would have to leave his room much too soon after dinner for comfort. It is needless to say that a most abnormal development of the biceps of almost every man in college would ensue, and this, with the wasting of valuable time and the loss of the more valuable inspiration of street car literature - we refer to such meaning proverbs as "Soapine...
Last evening, within five minutes, Sever 11 was lighted, the doors were opened, and the seats were filled! Grand as the sight of such rapid movements of an audience might be, we find it hard to understand why those who are managing the lectures care to sacrifice the comfort of the audiences and the value of the lectures to a selfish desire to see a solid column of humanity crowd itself in a room not at all capable of receiving it. Sever 11, with the poor lights, limited space, and hard seats, is no place for such lectures as Judge...
...most part, cheap wooden chairs, constructed with an entire disregard of the curves and angles of the human frame, and placed behind a sort of toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic state thereby...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I was not born a grumbler, but I am in a fair way to become one. I am not very much more sensitive to a lack of comfort than my fellow beings, but I have endured, during the past two months, such great discomfort, that I must trespass upon your space a little to air my grievances. Imprimis. I take Pol. Econ. IV which recites in Massachusetts. I believe you have published a previous complaint about the absence of shades on the windows in that building, and I wish to reiterate...