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...Garret...
...fellow who has written these things about his own college, he probably knows no better, and therefore deserves pity, not scorn and loathing. He probably is some wretched, half-witted being, living in a very musty and unclean garret, tenanted by vermin, who scribbles to order, that he may keep his miserable anatomy alive. He would slander his own grandmother at five dollars a column. Therefore, gentle reader, though you may be inclined to revile him bitterly, - don't; he knows no better. "It's his conception of the part." and he means no offence...
...genius should be stimulated to better work, rather than be fettered by these same surroundings. This idea applies equally well to students at college. The quality of the work done by every man is affected by the nature of the circumstances under which he lives. A bare and cold garret may be in theory an excellent place to do one's best literary work, but in practise the theory does not meet with much success...
...portraits of its founder, of James Russel Lowell, Goldwin Smith, and of Louis Agassiz; all by the painter Carpenter. Dr. William D. Wilson and John McGraw, (by Purdy,) Justin H. Morrill, (by Johnson,) and Peter Cooper (by a student at Cooper Union) are represented. There are portraits of Humboldt, Garret Smith, and Prudence Crandall, who organized a school for colored children in the early days of Abolitionism. Busts of Lincoln, by Vinnie Ream-Hoxie; of Prof. G. W. Greene, by Crawford; of President White, William C. Russell, and Dr. Wilson, form some of the historical pieces in the gallery...
Leaving their comfortable rooms at Cambridge, six men had to sleep in two rooms of low ceiling, barely 14 feet square. Three men occupied two smaller rooms; and two men, who rowed on the Crew proper, each occupied garret-rooms, or rather closets, with scarcely space to move round. Added to all this, the mattresses furnished were worn-out truck taken from an old steamboat. There was no shade around the place, and the house becoming very warm during the day, it was midnight before it became sufficiently cool to allow one to get to sleep. It is safe...