Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expense, and that at this moment he is not able to tell half so much about his own furniture as you can. My old Smith's room was magnificently "gotten up" by a millionnaire upholsterer from New York, but as household art had not been invented at that time, it was full of gilding and bright color. And when I tell you that it contained no less than seven distinct and antagonistic shades of red, you will understand why I used to call it the battle-field...
...have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures. You will of course need to buy a certain number of text-books, and if you take my advice, you will also pick up from time to time any outside books that may suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room so well. For my own part, the fellow who lined his walls with boards painted to look like bindings took a step in the right direction. His room looked well...
...your taste in pictures, too. Don't overload your walls with old masters, and be called an old fool instead of a young one. Don't waste your money in sporting-prints and third-rate French engravings. But choose pictures that are worth looking at, and at the same time are within the very limited comprehension of the ordinary student. You don't want to seem a prig, nor yet a vulgarian. I should advise you to avoid shingles, for everybody has them; and men who have not taste enough to choose anything better hang them up in place...
...shall say but one word more. Don't spend too much money on your room, for you will be less and less in it every year. If you become a grind, you will spend half your time in the Library; if you become a man of fashion, in society, societies, and the clubs. And that the latter fate may be yours is the sincere hope...
...FROM time to time certain disturbances take place in Cambridge, of which the authors are probably students; and last week an unusual violation of private property occurred in the abstraction of a skeleton from the Natural History Museum. Whether the Faculty have taken any steps to discover the guilty parties is not known, but one thing is sure. Whatever steps the governing body might take against the thoughtless perpetrators of this boyish mischief would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir...