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...Class-Day Committee earnestly request that all students rooming in College who occupy ground-floor rooms which do not face on the Yard be particularly careful to lock their windows on Class-Day evening. This precaution is absolutely necessary both for the protection of their own property and for rendering the roping in of the Yard effectual...
...Hollis will answer the purpose; though why this should be a pleasing object of contemplation is a mystery. Add now a pair of clasped hands with names neatly carved on them; this is the subject of an annual presentation to the happy occupant of a corner room in the ground-floor of Hollis. The last item is a skull, with a few names artistically painted on the exterior; there is also pasted thereon "Byron's Apostrophe to a Skull." A human skull in this heterogeneous heap! When I reflect that "history sometimes repeats itself," the inference drawn...