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...some excuse; but the average comment, and the most frequent one, is "to Hell with Yale". The sentiment is undoubtedly patriotic and shows that all this talk about "Harvard indifference" is greatly exaggerated. But it might be suggested that the college patriots of the marginal note express their overflow of feeling in some more effective...
...British India, and was originally used as an armed East India merchantman. Her tonnage is 1100, and she is 135 feet long with 30 foot beam. She is built throughout of solid Burmese teakwood. In 1802 the "Success" was chartered by the British government to transport to Australia the overflow from the home jails. There she became a floating prison to which men were sentenced for terms varying from seven years to life, often for what are now considered petty offenses. She was sold in 1868 by the British when the convict system was reformed. She was later sunk...
Undoubtedly crowds poured out their money to see the "Battle of a Century", and crowds invariably gather to hall a champion prize-fighter, or watch an automobile accident, or a dub being photographed; just as what O. Henry called "professional rubberneckers" have dons from time immemorial. But all this overflow of curiosity to gaze on champions, or white elephants, for that matter, is certainly not now and does not indicate a state of moral depravity any more now that it did in the days of that prince of "rubberneckers", Samuel Pepys, who "did wait two hours to behold the King...
...Inca architecture, that they were entirely too few in number. This at least was an explanation for certain curious structures which we had found in the vicinity--little platforms set in the branches of nearby trees, with scanty-walls and roofs. No doubt these tree-huts had been the overflow dormitories. It seemed strange to our investigators that the Incas, so highly civilized in many ways, had been so careless of the bodily welfare and domestic comfort of the students. Cordially yours, J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...
...University an adequate room registry office where there will be means of checking up on the lodging houses. An office of this kind could make some such arrangement as the Business School made this year; it could take an option on enough rooms to take care of the overflow from the Charles River dormitories, thereby making it possible to assign rooms to all Freshmen except those who enter after the fall examinations...