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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE is nothing I like better than, when alone in my room, to draw a chair up to the fire and while away the last few minutes before the striking of the midnight clock in fanciful speculations for the morrow and in serious retrospect of the day spent. If I do not derive some benefit, at least, from these ruminations, it at any rate seldom happens that I think to-night on the subject of last night; but since this cold weather has set in, my thoughts hitch each time on the same point. I invariably dwell upon the temperature...
...five decades the mat was passed from one occupant of the room to the succeeding one, until the written record began to read like a chapter in the Old Testament, "And So-and-so bequeaths it unto What's-his-name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto Thing-a-my," and so they go on bequeathing, until the legacy comes to an end with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because...
...while a blue coat and brilliant red waistcoat covered the upper part of his body. He took off his large slouch hat as he came in, and showed a head of brown ringlets. Thinking he had been taking part in some theatricals, and had wandered by mistake into my room, I offered him a chair and my jar of Lone Jack. He dipped his thumb and forefinger into the tobacco and proceeded to take it as snuff...
...bores you. It would be unwise to tell them that they are fools, for, in the first place, at their period of life that is a foregone conclusion, and in the second place, two can play at that game. Neither would it be wise to retire to your own room in disgust, for man is a gregarious mammal, and you are a man. Nor yet ought you to look as gloomy as a funeral in the midst of a crowd of amused men. If they laugh, you ought to laugh too. If you can't laugh with them...
...accordance with this resolution, the room of the club, No. 19 Grays' Hall, will probably be thrown open within a short time to such students as may wish to subscribe. In the room, which will be open day and evening, will be found numerous books of reference on artistic subjects, and particularly upon subjects connected with the Fine Arts courses in college. Among other works which have been lent to the Club are the folio History of Athens, by Stuart and Revet, and Penrose's Principles of Athenian Architecture. In addition to these books of reference several of the leading...