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...with tobacco smoke? Yea, verily: or ever the morrow's sun. shall rise this vast space shall be packed with dense smoke as with a tangible substance, so that from the flattest-sprawled student beneath a table to the stray bird that seeks an outlet from the highest pane above, each pair of lungs shall be laden with the all-pervading incense of the Indian weed. What can thousands of deter mined men, puffing ceaselessly at thousands of monumental pipes, not accomplish...
...before yesterday a cat created much excitement in N. H. 6. She escaped from durance vile in the biological laboratory of the Agassiz Museum, and in her fright jumped through a pane of glass, and fell from the window, which is in the fifth story, to the ground. She landed squarely on her feet and started off on a run, pursued by several men, but could not be caught...
...away. Seriously, this ought to be remedied; the complaint has been made so often before that it should be listened to. Men are constantly in danger of severe headaches if not of actual sunstroke from this cause. The rays of the sun coming on a June day through a pane of glass, falling upon an unprotected head or neck beneath, and playing over its surface for an hour, is excessively painful, if not dangerous. Then, the glare caused by this same cause is excessively unpleasant, both to lecturer and student. Negligence to remedy these defects has transformed what ought...
Like all other cadets, I am living in Edgar Poe's old room, which in common with his numerous other old rooms, has his name scratched on the window pane. I firmly believe that the troubles of West Point lent his character its peculiar despondency...
Suddenly, chancing to look over towards one of the windows during an unusually sharp blast of the sleet outside, I saw a face peering through the pane. I could not jump,-for lack of salutatory machinery,-but a thrill went through me It was my own face. It was thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...