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...that Yale rooms are dear at that price. In the old buildings everything is musty and shabby. In the new everything is so new as to give a cold and cheerless aspect to the rooms. Further, in the new buildings at Yale the rooms have no open grates, but are heated by close and unhealthy steam-pipes. Is it better to pay a few dollars less and spend your evenings with your feet on a hot iron pipe instead of at a homelike grate...
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
Pale icicles are frozen round my grate...
...then proceeded to take the ashes from the grate; during which operation I was endeavoring to calculate from how many rooms she had already removed the ashes that morning, before she had smoothed my counterpane, for I can't say that she had made my bed. After she had taken away as much of the ashes as pleased her, she returned with a feather duster, which she shook around the room, thereby shifting the dust from the bookcase to the centre table, from the centre table to the side table, and so about the room. I have calculated that...
...modern ventilator over the door, and we perceive no patent iron mantel, or fireplace. And my search for the Ebon shield and motto is repaid only by the inscription, "J. C. W. 1792," which, though long since filled with the janitor's putty, is still discernible just above the grate. The ceiling is low, and no cornice adorns the walls, but the windows command an excellent view of the Yard, and the comfortable window-seats and the pervading venerable aspect of the apartment made up, we thought, for all its deficiencies. And then, after a time, the room became...