Word: putting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...better commentary on the atmosphere of our dormitories is needed than the reply of the Senior, who, on being asked why he did not put on his overcoat these awful cold days, replied, "O, I keep that to wear in my room...
...notice in the list of examination groups published in another column that some examinations have been put down for the afternoon. Last year great dissatisfaction with this practice was expressed by the students, who complained that the afternoon was a time decidedly unfavorable for such severe work as a three-hour examination. We hope that some way may be found whereby all the examinations may take place in the morning...
...moment afterward, as she was making a quick turn, one of her skates flew off and came gliding over the ice to my feet. She did not fall, but stood still till I brought her skate and asked her could I put it on. Half assenting, she turned to her friend, who looked so haughty and reserved that the girl, with a checked look again coming over her face, only said, with thanks, that she would not trouble me. So I went away, and sat down on the edge of the platform...
...Index, having devoted last year to proving that higher education in America tends to suicide, intends, during the coming winter, to expose the total depravity, to put it mildly, which exists in colleges that have not "about them the influence of the true [Roman Catholic] religion." "Frequently," says the Index, "students of Yale, of Harvard, of Rutgers, of Cornell, fall into the clutches of the law, and as a consequence are treated just as their offence merits. Generally the charge is 'drunk and disorderly,' and the customary alternative of ten dollars and costs, or ten days, is the last resource...
...Board of Directors at Memorial Hall have at length put the Sunday breakfast half an hour later. The general appreciation of the change was shown by the number of men who last Sunday took advantage of this privilege and appeared in the Hall between nine and half-past. Considering how dear to most of us is that extra "forty winks" on the only morning whose slumberous stillness is unbroken by either first or second bell, and considering that all private clubs have late breakfasts on Sunday, it seems strange that the Board have not been sooner compelled, by complaints...