Word: garrets
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Therein lies the difficulty. The field is exceedingly lucrative for a clever "faker". It is necessary only to find in some garret a respectable painting; sufficiently powdered with dust and old-looking, tell the world about it, and the hoax is sure to find a buyer. The work may not succeed in the distinction of being called a Titian or a Rembrandt for long, but if advertised properly is sure to fool someone who knows nothing about art and buys for the name alone. Under modern methods of publicity, "finds" can be staged which will outdo Mark Twain's story...
Some of the graduate departments are badly crowded. The Business School in particular has been holding its classes in cellar and garret, and has had to limit its enrollment because it simply could not find space enough in which to teach all the men who were qualified to enter the School. A Business School building, or group of buildings, would not be a luxury; it is, or will soon be, a necessity...
...Yard Dash.--T, Campbell, J. B. Carrington, P. F. Cooper, T. C. Coxe J. D. Garret, T. P. Heffelfinger, F. W. Hilles, T. J. O'Brien, R. G. Page, H. S. Reed, C. H. Roddy, J. Stewart, J. W. Sweetser, G. Thornton, C. S. Webb...
...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...