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...examination room late and then be obliged to spend five minutes in wandering round in a vain attempt to find a particular blue book, but it is certainly much more disagreeable for those who are already at work to be disturbed by the moving about of the late comer. Examinations in themselves are far from pleasant, but under existing circumstances they are a necessity, and we ought to do all in our power to lessen the trials and tribulations incumbent upon them. A little care and attention to the wishes of the instructors in this respect, will do away with...
...good court at those times. But although they may see dozens of courts unoccupied they do not feel at liberty to use them. Let it be understood that during the morning and until three or perhaps four o'clock in the afternoon every court is open to the first comer. That is, that ownership of a court consists merely of the right to have the exclusive use of a court between certain prescribed hours of the afternoon. Let any person have the right to use any unoccupied court between three and six, provided only that he be ready to yield...
...easily pass suitable rules. Let it be understood that those men who own courts in the fall can claim them in the spring up to a certain date, and that if, after that date, the owners have not claimed their courts, the ground is open to the first comer who wishes the court. This will do something towards lessening the injustice of a custom which allows a man to own a court who never uses it or does not use it for weeks after the season has opened...
...taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Vereschagin, at this proposition, opened his blue eyes and, with a sweet, quiet smile, observed, "Gentlemen, I have come here to learn painting, and with...
None of the young ladies had ever seen him, and as they all evinced a very unusual interest in the new-comer, I detailed at great length all his many excellences, dwelling with especial emphasis upon his irresistible humor, for Jack was one of the most comical fellows I ever had the good fortune to meet...