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...university should be a charitable institution in no way save where the interests of education can be promoted; but we have a monomania, here, for the assistance of the se facturi ipsi to the detriment of all others, which will some day reduce our College to a classical and scientific poor-house with aesthetic accompaniments...
...could it look like a cloister when its occupants were students in naught but name? And then Sam had such an untidy way of leaving his garments on the chairs and tables, and of keeping all his text and note books on the mantel-shelf, to the great detriment of the respectable appearance of the room, and in close proximity to pipes and actresses...