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...What a shiftless fellow the owner of this room must be!' said one fair visitor. 'He ought to have a wife to look after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN UNDERGRADUATE'S CLASS DAY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...Goody has no respect for a Freshman; still he is comforted by the vain hope that he will soon receive a visit from that victim of a task too great for human powers, who is supposed to be able to superintend a force of twenty five or thirty shiftless, shirking women, who have to do their work in three hundred rooms. Even if he is ever visited, he finds a single complaint of no use, for the "Queen Goody" has no time to see that her subordinate carries out her orders; and when, by reiterated complaints, she is driven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AESTHETICS AT HARVARD. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

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