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...peddlars, beggars, traders and book agents, who have been calling at the rooms of the students in the college buildings. The notices in all the entries seem to have lost their power of former years, and are now passed by unnoticed. The nuisance at present, is not a very grew, but in time it is likely to become even unbearable...
...gentleman's club with the end in view of holding weekly debates. Now why could not the Union here begin on something like this plan, first by making a yearly assessment on its members; with this money it could hire and fit up some rooms, and as it grew it could become more and more of a club. That the advantages of such a club open to the whole college with some restrictions, would be inestimable cannot be doubted. Next week we hope to give a few of the reasons why such a club must and would thrive here...
...very much afraid that we went home coveting the good things of our neighbors. As we stood in Memorial Hall, and looked up at the lofty walls hung with portraits of illustrious men, and lighted by beautiful stained-glass windows, we grew decidedly envious. Why should not girls have their senses educated by being surrounded with beauty during their years of study? To be sure, Lasell is not bare and dreary, like the conventional boarding-school, and many "things of beauty" are taking their place in our halls, but we need a great deal more than we have. Beautiful things...
...year. When Mr. Balch gave up his position there was a strong feeling against his management. Many abuses were allowed to exist which could easily have been checked. Some of the food was unpalatable and unfit to eat, and was served in that condition. Consequently complaints were many and grew stronger and more aggressive as the year drew to its end. And it would not be strange if much of this feeling of dissatisfaction should have passed over to this year, and should prejudice many against the hall, especially in view of its many and successive failures. But we think...
...money and of utensils - even to a silver beer-bowl and a jug tipped with silver - were contributed; and to these were added offerings of the peck of corn annually, of meat and ewe lambs, and of everything that could be turned into money. Thus the colonial colleges grew up "out of the sacrificial generosity of the heart of the people...