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A LARGE gilt cross has been placed above the entrance to the Library. We don't know whether it is meant as an expression of the Faculty's sympathies in the Turco-Russian war, or as an open defiance of the gentleman who lately accused the Library of wasting its...
"Why!" said I, "but don't you think you will miss the fellows, particularly your classmates? And what do you say to college life? Don't you enjoy that?"
"In what sense do you say that time is wasted?" said our host at my left; "do you mean that you don't study, or that study is not a good investment for your time?"
"I mean both; somehow one can't study much at Cambridge; and, again, I don't believe that half of the courses can do me any good."
"O no! I assure you that all my friends to whom I have spoken on the subject - and we often talk about it, since we can now look back over our course - agree unanimously in saying that they have had quite enough of the undergraduate life. They don't think...