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...interior arranged after the manner of the Roman atrium from which branch off the various corridors, officers and reception rooms. The building is several stories high, and terminates unexpectedly with the art-room under its eaves. The college museum is not one half as interesting as the trunk-rooms. The trunks of the students, "as much as five thousand," as one of the students said, are all gathered together in two large attics,-either one of which might easily be transformed into a skating rink,-and would occupy the space taken up by one of our college buildings...
...concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students or having obtained permission from the same. After some altercation, the unfortunate scientist went to his hotel, packed his trunk, and left town...
...Professor Sophocles was first "brought out," it is said, in 1836 by two Yale tutors, Messrs. N. P. Seymour and S. C. Brace, who had known him at Hartford, where he was living in obscurity with the manuscript of his Greek grammar packed away at the bottom of his trunk. They invited him to come to New Haven, and the Yale people at once made him at home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room in the chapel...
...mysterious individual was observed yesterday morning busily engaged for a long time in holding up the trunk of the beech tree. It was generally supposed that the faculty had placed a guard over the venerable relic, but on consulting Jones this theory was found to be false. It is now feared that O'Dynamite Rossa has schemes against this pet of the college authorities through a mistaken opinion that it is an English...
...Grand Trunk Railroad pays $5,000,000 in bonds and $250,000 in cash for its recent purchase, the North Shore Railroad...