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...shelter from the wind can always be found. The one large room up-stairs is entirely devoted to the purposes of a dormitory. Underneath it is the room, which serves as reading room, dining room and reception room. Separated from this by a passage not enclosed, is the kitchen. Everything is rough and nothing can be discovered of lath or plaster, but everything is comfortable and suitable, from the rough chimney in which we burn logs on cold evenings, to the rough pine table at which we dine, scrawled all over by the hands of visitors and interesting notes...
When class day came he would invite us to his room to see the dancing on the green, which always took place in front of his windows. It was a funny room, and served him as kitchen, parlor, study and bedroom, all at once. He did not use the small bedrooms except as storehouses for his books and manuscripts. The furniture of the large room was simple in the extreme. Near the small stove was a plain table and two chairs. In one corner, arranged on his large handkerchief spread on the floor, was his clean linen, in another...
Students, after a sumptuous repast, to host: "Our compliments to your kitchen and cellar. We have agreed to have a running match, and the one who comes out last will pay the bill. Will you kindly give us a signal to start?" The beaming host slowly counts one, two, three; the students disappear round the corner and are seen no more. - [Fliegende Blatter...
...best for perfect ventilation and quick heating. There are two large rooms or wards, with two small rooms and bath-rooms adjoining. By this arrangement two different diseases can be treated here, and if occasion demands it eight students can be accommodated. In the basement is a kitchen with a cook stove and all necessary utensils, a laundry and cloacae. The house is heated by means of a furnace, and there are also fireplaces in each large room. These fires are always kept ready to be lighted, so that at a moment's warning the house can be warmed...
Directly back of this wing, and connected with it, are extensive conservatories, now filled with rare and beautiful plants. In the north wing are the dining room, kitchen, laundry, bakery, pantries, storerooms and servants' rooms. The upper stories are arranged as dormitories or students' rooms. The eastern portion is the gymnasium. There are accommodations for about one hundred and twenty students, besides officers, teachers and servants. In this building most of the lady students live, their material wants looked after by a steward, whose wife, as matron, carefully orders lights out in the reception rooms and parlors...