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...giving notice of our intention at the Bursar's office, and posting a notice on the door that the room has been cleaned. Now I would like to know why, after this has been done, the rooms are still entered, through the transom, if there is a Yale lock on the door, and generally small movables are stolen. In one case which came to my knowledge last year the furniture was piled up under one of the windows, and the blinds carefully pulled up so that the sun and dust entirely ruined...
...students rooming in College who occupy ground-floor rooms which do not face on the Yard, are warned to be particularly careful to lock their windows on Class-Day evening. This precaution is absolutely necessary, both in the protection of their own property and for rendering the roping in of the Yard effectual...
...scarcity of the earlier numbers of the Lampoon continues, we rejoice in being able to put the editors on the track of their disappearance. See Rape of the Lock...
...recognizes the passer-by as clearly as though the partition were transparent. When I hear various preliminary kicks at, and slams of, the neighboring doors, a shuffling step along the entry, a rattling of keys, a banging of tin pails, and a peculiar snuffle directly opposite my door-lock, I make preparations to receive the goody. In like manner, successive knocks at Nos. 7 and 8 deafen me to the appeals of itinerant pedlers and orange-men. It is not always a wise course, however, to feign absence; for the other day, on my paying no attention...
...Only a lock of golden hair...