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...only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley. A man is known, says the proverb, by the company he keeps, and not only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that...
...these will be equipped with shower baths and closets. There are to be eighty-six suites of rooms in Perkins, the largest number in any Harvard dormitory. Each suite is intended for one occupant and will consist of a study 13 ft. by 16 ft., and a bed chamber 9 ft. by 12 ft. The studies will have comfortable window seats and will be heated by open fire-places, although there is to be steam-heating in the corridors...
...estate valued at thirty thousand pounds. At the age of six, De Quincey was sorely grieved by the death of an elder sister, who had read to him the story of the Arabian Nights, which aroused in him such a great spirit of imagination. He stole into the death chamber of his sister and received those impressions, which make up his charming and vivid narrative published many years later...
...Union needs various articles of furniture, etc., to complete its equipment for next year. Will any students about to leave Cambridge who are willing to contribute any chamber or study furniture, pictures, etc., for this purpose, please communicate with C. C. Closson, Jr., 59 Matthews Hall...
...Union needs various articles of furniture, etc., to complete its equipment for next year. Will any students about to leave Cambridge who are willing to contribute any chamber or study furniture, pictures, etc., for this purpose, please communicate with C. C. Closson, Jr., 59 Matthews Hall...