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...bored by requests from utter strangers "to have the kindness to tell me where I can find Mr. So-and-So." Of course we are civil enough to consult our index or catalogue and oblige the gentlemen, but we are bored none the less. But if the authorities would expend a few dollars on arrangements such as Felton is provided with, the trouble would be remedied. As spring approaches, the number of visitors to the college increases, and this arrangement would be joyfully received by all parties. The college very generously granted our request in regard to the compressed...
...mouth when it falls, a trick worthy of an organ grinder's monkey, but entirely out of place in a dining room. Now let these freshmen who have not been with us long enough to know that Harvard is no nursery, turn over a new leaf and expend some of their pocket money for a book on "table etiquette." It is high time that such childish actions were abolished, and that a realization of their position be forced upon them...
...members of the senior class at Columbia propose to expend between $800 and $1200 for books upon one subject, and present them to their Alma Mater as a class memorial...
...students have as yet availed themselves of the advantages of a well equipped reading room at a very moderate membership fee, - only a dollar for the rest of the year. Many will give more than this sum in payment for half the subscription of a college paper, and expend many times this amount for other reading matter, while by joining the reading-room they might have not only the best illustrated and comic papers of England and America, but also the leading journals of these two countries, and the representative dailies of Boston, New York and Springfield, not to mention...
Bowdoin will expend $90,000 on her gymnasium, and the University of Pennsylvania $7,000 on her new athletic field...