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...order to keep the undergraduates from passing from one set of chambers to another. Even where there are no bars, there is some danger from mere height, coupled with the absence of a second staircase. In my Oxford days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged me to take some wine with him, as the night before 'he had been forced to get drunk all alone.' I lived in terror lest this drunken fool might set his room on fire...
...burning of Stoughton last Monday, occurring as it did in the daytime, and being confined almost wholly to the top story of the building, proved less disastrous than might have been expected. But if the fire had broken out on the ground-floor during the night, great loss of property, and perhaps of life, would have been inevitable. The ladders, which figured so prominently in the Bursar's letter to the Advertiser last year, and which he stated could be put in use in less than five minutes, were found to be so carefully strapped down that it was more...
...attention of the College to the exorbitant price asked for many of the rooms, - a price which not only exceeds that asked by other colleges, but which seems to follow no fixed rules. For instance, one hundred and seventy-five dollars is asked for a room on the ground-floor of Thayer, and also for one on the fourth floor. Considering the best of the rooms are cold, comfortless and undesirable, such a price is simply out of all proportion. As a result, there are now vacant nineteen rooms in this one building; for no one - not even a Freshman...
...Freshman I drew a middle entry ground-floor room facing the south, and, spite of the pitying accents and sympathetic glances of my friends, thought myself very well off. I was warned that there were two societies in the entry, but as one was aesthetic and the other anti-atheistic, I concluded I could stand it if they could. I did n't know the vast resources of the human mind when musical...
...This year I took a ground-floor room in Holworthy, thus making sure of having no one beneath me, and having ascertained that two very quiet Seniors were above me. But I did not enjoy my peace of mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear...