Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
...invaded by a "horde of lusty Helots" armed with crow-bars and pickaxes; for their murderous intent upon Gore Hall was manifest. Those who have sat and read and writhed in its swivel seats, or waited while its alleged contents were sought form the cellar of Appleton or the garret of Conant, will pause to breathe the respectful sigh due its venerable three quarters of a century of existence. And thus passes Gothic Gore, former abode of ecumenic erudition and draughty discomfort...
Sketched briefly the story is as follows: Dr. Garret, an eminent New York never specialist has under treatment for shock, Joan, the orphan daughter of his life-long companion, Mr. Mannering...
Before his death Mr. Mannering to whom Dr. Garret was under great obligation, expressed the wish that his friend marry his daughter. From the nature of the request Dr. Garret felt bound to comply with it, and although the marriage involved the sacrifice of a position of many possibilities, he acceded, and married her. Not until after the wedding did Joan discover her husband's unselfishness; but then realizing the situation, she sought to free him by divorce. He, on his part, finding not only that she had fallen in love with him but also that...