Word: impedimenta
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...Office. Second-hand furniture stores are crowded with eager students purchasing desks and desk chairs, book shelves, and other conveniences for study, which alas, will only too soon be abandoned in favor of arm chairs and te Orpheum. Trucks and vans, in endless line, are rolling in with impedimenta, from golf bags to carefully prepared boxes from home, all to be unceremoniously dumped on the polished steps of the dormitories. Some are studiously turning over the leaves of the course pamphlet in careful search of "snaps...
...class have contributed anything to the fund; which, as every Senior knows, must be large to defray even the necessary expenses of the class. Of course money is always scarce during the last two months of the Seniors year, but with the decreasing need for furniture, books, and other impedimenta, there ought to be some means somewhere for securing nourishment for the frail class fund...
...basement of the gymnasium is a repository for all small articles which have been found from time to time. There has already accumulated a curious collection of gymnastic impedimenta, from which one could easily select a complete gymnastic outfit...