Word: rooming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SARGENT has had a room in the new Gymnasium fitted up for his own use, and both he and the janitor sleep in the building...
...SCENE: Room in Weld last Friday. - Freshman in bed. - Enter Goody...
...informed that the Faculty contemplate substituting for the roll call of students in each section, a method of registration by which each student is expected to report three times each week to the Proctor of his building, or some other authority in case he does not room in a Proctor's building; this provision is made to prevent non-residence of students. We should be glad to see real voluntaries given to the College, which of course means the abolition of a meaningless roll-call, but cannot judge of the system of registration until further details are made public...
...From room to room, on news intent...
...were hidden under Weld and Harvard Hall. Jones, the bell-ringer, tried to put out the flames with a garden pump and a bucket of water, before the alarm was given. His efforts, however, were unsuccessful, and by the time the engines arrived, the fire had gained headway in room No. 16, where it is supposed to have started, and in the attic. Ladders were immediately raised, and hose was run up, but with so little order that it was some time before a stream was brought to bear on the flames. The firemen paid little attention to the furniture...