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...YALE lock has been put on the door of the new Reading-Room. None but members of the Union can receive keys, for which a small deposit will have to be made, to be returned on the delivery...
...longed to get to land somewhere, though it was on the bottom; and rather preferred the latter place. Amy looked at me in a frightened sort of a way, and wanted to know if I felt well; and, if I recollect aright, I informed her that it was none of her confounded biz. The boat was getting into the trough of the sea, and pitching heavily, and she begged me to row to land; and reminded me of how I had just desired even to lay down my life for her sake. I believe that I said something about hanging...
...Greek rather than to master technicalities which they must soon forget, unless they expect to teach. Now the Echo's assumption, that this facility is gained in the work of two hours a week for some thirty weeks, implies a facility of acquiring the Greek language which few (probably none) have. Professor White certainly makes no such assumption; for he hopes in future to make the course a three-hour course, and to read the whole of Herodotus in one year, thus doing what those who wished to elect the course, as now given, a second time hoped to accomplish...
...thing, as the word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet game of lawn tennis in which I was participating, and introduced...
...with no thought or wish that there might be better bargains. If not before the end of his first year, then surely at the beginning of the second, he awakes to the knowledge that he is paying exorbitant prices. He looks around for a competitor to Mr. Sever. Finding none, he has recourse to those students who advertise books at second hand. He is fortunate if he finds what he wishes. By the beginning of his Junior year, at least, he experiments among the Boston bookstores. His eyes are then opened to the true inwardness of his large book account...