when people had been cooped up for too long in the dark days of the winter , they always tended to get on one another 's nerves , although there was probably a school of thought that would hold that spending your time in a university with more than five thousand known rooms , a huge library , the best kitchens in the city , its own brewery , dairy , extensive wine cellar , laundry , barber shop , cloisters and skittle alley was testing the definition of 'cooped up ' a little .