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This year's Index may well claim superiority over numbers of previous years in at least one particular. The "Directory of rooms in the college yard." pp. 172-180, cannot but be of value to the college at large. Certainly the "subscription fiend" will glory in it, and although his glory may be others' sorrow, still a really valuable feature of the Index should not be condemned for any such slight disadvantage. It is, however, a matter of regret that this directory was not made to include the more important buildings out of the yard, such as Holyoke, College House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Index for 1885-86. | 11/30/1885 | See Source »

...vexation. Our sanctum is still the receptacle of communications complaining of examination rooms too hot, or of examination rooms too cold: we are still urged to continue the agitation of the plank walk question, but, up to date, we have not received a single complaint about the piano fiend. Can it be that the musical men have loafed more than usual this season? Or are we to believe that a spirit of forbearance has crept in among them? We are led to hope that the latter solution of the problem is the true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1885 | See Source »

Thanking Mrs. Obrien for her courtesy, the reporter withdrew, and picked his way out of the alley, pondering deeply on the hard fate of goodies in general, and Mrs. Obrien in particular, and mentally noting, in his odorous surrounding's, some excellent material for an essay on "The Cholera Fiend," illustrated a la the Boston Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodies. | 1/23/1885 | See Source »

...bundle that he carries under his arm, and of which he will let you have a hundred or so as a special favor. Scarcely is this dreadful creature disposed of, leaving an odor of garlic behind him that lingers in spite of pipes and open windows, when the picture fiend appears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/7/1883 | See Source »

...musical fiend" always re-appears at examination times, driving men out of their heads and rooms. But heretofore his malicious designs have been confined to his unfortunate entry, where but a comparatively small number suffer, But this new "fiend" has extended his line of attack. He now occupies a Weld room opposite the library, where he can destroy the intellects of the whole university. His purpose, no doubt, is to clear the whole library, and then appropriate the books. He is an emissary of Yale or the "annex" who envies us our fine library. He must be suppressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY IN DANGER. | 6/7/1883 | See Source »

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