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UNFORTUNATELY for those students who take their courses, there are several instructors who pay no attention to any one's comfort but their own. This has been especially noticeable of late, when, by not posting a "cut" on the bulletin board, the professors have obliged students to tramp up to the Botanical Garden, through the mud, only to find that there was no lecture. It seems to us that when recitations are held so far away as this, or at the Zoological Museum, due notice ought to be given if the instructors intend beforehand to be absent. But they...
...this book are very well indicated by the full title, which runs as follows: "A Tight Squeeze; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven into the narrative...
...which there is any record. As far as can be ascertained the choice for professions is as follows: Lawyers, 49; Business men, 14; Doctors, 13; Literary men, 10; Ministers, 9; Journalists, 5; Devoted to literature, pure and undefiled, 1; Engineer, 1; Opera-singer, 1; Bar-keeper, 1; Tramp...
...seems to be in a bad way at Williams. "The boat-house and contents have been attached for rent. The boats, both those belonging to the association and those owned by private individuals, are open to the pure air of heaven and the stones and clubs of every vagrant tramp...
...season." The Courant is at present exchanging compliments with the Record, as witness the following: "When we turn to the exchanges our surprise all vanishes as we see the students of Cornell characterized as 'muckers and slums,' and language used which would befit only a loafer or a tramp...