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...benefits of such a scheme are evident and manifold. At present the comparative inconvenience of Fogg Museum discourages many from visiting it. On the other hand nothing could be more convenient than the exhibit in Lowell House. It is possible for men to saunter casually into the Common Room after dining, and satisfy their natural craving for the artistic with a minimum of time and energy spent. The congenial atmosphere of the Common Room, in contrast to the air of formality which pervades Fogg, or any other museum of art, places the observer at his case, and permits...
...public's jibes and jeers at the Senate's summer saunter through the tariff were enough to account for the Speaker's state of mind. What perhaps amused him most, what certainly incensed the Senate most, was the frequent charge that, like Nero, the Senate had fiddled while U. S. business burned (TIME, Dec. 2). Like many another, the Speaker had observed the Neronic figure of Senate Leader Watson, helpless to extinguish the spreading blaze of Senate insurgency...
...spacious grounds. Assembled to watch this scene will be many members of the Harvard faculty and the entire membership of the Boston Dickens' Fellowship. Here, old friends like Tony and Sam Weller, the charming, Wardle family, Joe the fat Boy and others in the immortal galaxy will saunter about the grounds as through on the English countryside...
This morning at 9:05 o'clock I shall arise from my eggs and coffee, and with shredded wheat all over my lapels and icicles hanging down my neck saunter slowly forth on my material peregrinations. Since I have not been able to find any lectures of interest today, I shall proced directly to one of the many examinations which are being held for the benefit of conscientious students and the Widow's (alias Manter Hall School). I I never used to pay much attention to these things when I lived here regularly, but yesterday I visited...
Even a casual saunter along the Square betrays the progress of some untoward migration. The restless mien of the Massachusetts Avenue flaneurs, the noisy preoccupation of last classes, the impatience of packers, the mad impetuosity of the Subway rush all give witness to the universal urge to departure. And what varied attractions the holiday holds...