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His room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHAMBER OF HORRORS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

The goodies are not wholly to blame for the wretched way in which they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RENT AND LEASE OF ROOMS. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

As the Corporation promised that the price of board should not be greater than it had been at the Thayer Club, the only improvements the new club could promise were a beautiful hall instead of an old, tumble-down railroad-depot, neat and trained negro-waiters instead of untidy Irish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

BEFORE me, neatly pasted in the book which contains the printed and written evidence of the pleasures and pains of three years' college life, there, between a summons and a play-bill, lies the slip of paper whereon the Steward informs me that I may retain my old room for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO. 43. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

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