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...America and begin my life at the University. Just before we shook hands for the last time he gave me a sealed package of papers, with the injunction that, should I ever hear of his death, I might open the package and read its contents. Should I see fit, I might also print them. I put the parcel away and thought little more of it, until, about a month ago, I was saddened to see by the morning papers that he had died at Singapore, in making the tour of the world. I then sought for the package and found...
...left unreservedly in the hands of one officer of the Faculty. The severity or lightness with which he may inflict punishment for continual "cutting," for instance, is unrestricted by any bounds, and he is at perfect liberty to take away the privilege of voluntary recitations whenever he deems fit. This appears to us to be taxing one person with more responsibility than human nature is capable of bearing; especially when we remember that formerly punishments were carefully assigned for each class of neglect. Then a student knew just what to expect for any breach of observance of College discipline...
...terrible crush. The steering of the crews is a matter of the greatest skill; for a bump must be fairly made, an overlapping, merely, counts for nothing, and the coxswain of a boat which is in danger of being bumped is allowed to change his course as he thinks fit, to prevent the bump being made...
...visit such a barber's shop, and what did I see? Three men were stretched out full-length and wrapped up in towels, with shut eyes, lying opposite a looking-glass. They probably wished to see how they looked when asleep. Some must have been in a fainting-fit, or at least fast asleep, for, though rubbed and scrubbed by other men, they did not mind it at all, but remained very quiet...
...Percy Altamont Villiers, younger brother of George, the hero of that delightful book. He had read his brother's biography, and, fired by that noble example, he determined to follow in his footsteps, nay, to surpass him. He, too, had had what he called a " fine fit" with a private tutor, and knew few or none of his future classmates, so that he was as well prepared to be a leading man as George had been...