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...considerable number of decent ones, and a number, not small, of such as are ordinary and ill-repaired." In regard to these last the good Doctor had a theory of his own. He thought they must be "inhabited by men accustomed to rely on the University for subsistence; men whose wives are the chief support of their families by boarding, washing, mending, and other offices of the like nature. The husband, in the mean time, is a kind of gentleman at large; exercising an authoritative control over everything within the purlieus of the house; reading news-papers and political pamphlets...
...robbing a room in Matthews, and it happens that his term in the House of Correction has but just expired; moreover, he was seen in the Square on Monday evening. There may be no connection between these events, but it would be well for those whose rooms are easily entered to take some precaution. We are unfortunately left by the College without sufficient protection either from thieves or from fire. Consequently, the precautions we take ourselves are the only safeguards we can rely on, and a certain amount of responsibility rests with every...
...large experience in catering for hotels, and who could bring recommendations from Parker. In these hard times there would probably be no difficulty in finding a good professional caterer to fill the position on the same terms as at present. We could at least get a man whose acquaintance with the business had been formed elsewhere than in a corner grocery...
...Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them, "in imagination," to the "Emerronian face" of Dr. Peabody, - whatever that may be. Then he ventures "to drop in a moment upon that remarkable native of the classic land of Greece, Professor Sophocles, whose worthy timeworn face is surrounded with a monstrous pile of snow-white hair, and who advances toward you with such a looseness of manner and dreamy intelligence of expression, that you wonder whether the veritable old Greek poet and the more modern Rip Van Winkle have not in some strange manner been...
...most Beethoven, in whose strains...