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...that anything, from Rabelais to Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...
MUCH complaint is heard about the condition of lower Holden every Monday morning. We will not say the dust is actually two inches thick, or that the air is so musty as to choke one; but certainly there is just cause for complaint from students who have to dust those ugly black benches with their elbows, and who have to breathe close air. Such a state of things as does exist at present indicates that somebody is remiss in the discharge of his duty. We trust this matter will receive the attention it deserves...
CLASS DAY, or the mutilated affair which took the place of that ancient rite, was a success. The day itself was perfect, - no heat, no dust, no rain. The Seniors seemed to be bound that the quality of the amusement should make up for the quantity. The sensations in the morning were rather singular; sharing in expectancy of something to come, the missing of something that was not, and a general feeling of lie-on-the-grass laziness taking precedence of all other emotions. The average undergraduate discussed the chances of the match, the amount of money he was going...
...care of rooms in Beck Hall presents a striking contrast to the care of rooms in the College buildings. While the duty of the College domestic seems to be the spreading of dust at an equal depth all over the room, the servants in Beck work as if they had seen good furniture before, and knew how to take care of it. Any one who has seen the interior of rooms in that building will acknowledge that a degree of cleanliness is there maintained which is unknown in Weld, Matthews, or Holworthy...
...book-case shows us a row or two of text-books in admirable condition, and a shelf of nicely bound standard works, such as Shakspere, Milton, Macaulay, and so forth. The books all stand exactly upright, each one is in its proper place, and not a speck of dust can be seen on any of them. On seeing such a book-case in a room, I immediately look to see if my boots have left any mud on the carpet, I feel uncomfortable about my umbrella, and wish that I had left it on the door-mat outside. And when...