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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...reserved books, the evil still continues. Not only are reserved books hidden in various parts of the Library, so that no one can find them except the one who hid them for his own selfish purpose, but also books are constantly missing from the shelves and can be found nowhere in the Library, the supposition naturally being that some student has secretly carried off the book to his own room. Books carried off in this manner have been missing for two or three weeks at a time, and then have appeared again on the shelves as mysteriously as they disappeared...
...Imagine, if you can, the shock that the discovery gave me: it was the first time, to my knowledge, that I had ever been guilty of sleep-walking. I could hardly believe that I was yet awake. I hurried shivering back to the hotel, found the door of my bed-room open; else I might have had some trouble in re-entering it. I wrapped myself up in blankets, and tried to collect my scattered senses...
...thus fills a place in College that could not be filled as well by any other society, with, perhaps, one exception. It is evident, however, that what makes the society fill its place so well is not the purely religious part of its work. There would hardly be found within the Yard fifty persons willing to devote one evening a week to praying and hymn-singing alone. For, thanks to the foresight of our wise overseers, every student has the privilege of listening to songs, praise, and prayer every morning before breakfast. We must, then, look for its distinctive character...
Nothing can effect so great a revolution as this last improvement. Harvard can now outrival the German universities. More time can be found for original work. The Juniors can be enabled by this improvement to petition for sixteen hours a week instead of twelve, and that the requisitions for a degree be raised. Or better still, let the Harvard(?) Annex, who have already crowded us in one or two electives, have their recitations in the College buildings from six in the evening until six in the morning...
...They found me able, they have left me dull...