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...inclined, the other evening, I descended from my room in search of some one to smoke with, talk with, or walk with, it mattered not which, provided I could only gratify my longing to be with my fellow-men. One room after another I tried, where congenial souls are wont to congregate, but dark windows or unanswered knocks told the same story for all; and, at length, I found myself in the Yard, as companionless as ever. "Why, O my chum," I groaned as I gazed at the gloomy window-panes of my room, "didst thou avail thyself...
...manuscript was given in 1683 to Jonathan Mitchell, Freshman, it being customary at that time for Freshmen, on their entrance, to possess themselves of manuscript copies of the laws, as it is now to provide them with "Bibles"; and these manuscripts, on account of the scarcity of paper, were wont to be handed down from class to class. These laws, as agreed upon by the Overseers, President, and Fellows, were divided under three heads...
...CRIMSON, - Will you allow me to intrude upon your space to propose a question upon which there seems to have been hitherto but little dispute, owing to the indifferent light in which the majority of the students are wont to regard...
...many classes of society peculiar to large cities, none is more marked than that of which the grisette forms the greater part. A sort of romance is thrown about them, and yet few ever realize the humdrum life they are wont to lead. Way up in attics, in cramped and gloomy rooms, the grisette opens her eyes at early dawn to look out of the one small window on a forest of chimneys and a waste of roofs, or perhaps on a mass of sombre blocks and lonely warehouses. But her room to a grisette is like a port...
...janitor, Kiernan, after the ringing of the first bell, was wont to go to the house of the clergyman who was to officiate and make sure of his attendance, and on his way back, he passed in the rear of Holworthy, clapping his hands to wake up the Seniors. It was generally understood in those days that when it was too dark for the minister to read, the monitors did not mark. In the latter part of the life of old Dr. Ware, when he had become almost blind, the undergraduates sometimes took advantage of this established custom...