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...club house with the hope of meeting the men whom he meets every day in the yard, and with the same probability of a more intimate acquaintance, the club will prove but little else than a covered highway, offering the same opportunities and no more than the corridor of many of the city hotels. This plan it is said will obviate the present tendency to the formation of cliques. This is far from assured. These so-called cliques are no more or less groups of men formed by commonality of taste or social distinction. To attempt by the formation...
...finally we arrived at the College, a fine brick building, imposingly placed on the summit of a steep hill which rises directly from the lake. Entering, we passed through the long hall, and were shown to our dressing room from which we went to the reception, held in the corridor on the second floor. The corridors were filled with members of the Faculty, juniors, and their guests. We first drank tea with the kind friend who invited us, and we were then taken through the upper part of the building. We passed up the stairs, through the halls. Elegant pictures...
...there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity when we thought of the sorrow in the college when the day for final packing up came. Our sadness soon passed away, however, for at the next moment we were again in the corridor, and for the next two hours were talking Wellesley, Harvard, Athletics, Prayers and Greek. How much we talked! Junior after junior was introduced, and when one set of girls got tired of talking, they would bring up a relief set. We were introduced to the president of the college...
...questions of the fair ones. "Do you have rooms like this at Harvard?" "Oh, yes," we reply, as we gaze aghast at the oil paintings, damask curtains, satin upholstery, and statuary that surround us. Here a suppressed sneer is heard and we at once move out into the corridor. We go to the library, a wilderness of black walnut shelves, glass doors, carved tables, Ouida's novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter...
Well, the election was held. As had been anticipated, the Republicans polled a vote which gave the Plumed Champion a magnificent majority. But though the Democracy was defeated, it still "claimed everything." Charges were made that three colored chambermaids had been colonized near the polls in the east corridor, and that they had voted as a unit for the Republicans. A Democratic deputy-inspectress, while attempting to arrest a repeatoress, was in turn arrested by a Republican marshallette. Turbulent scenes were for a time in prospect, but the arrival of the supper hour happily averted the threatened collision...