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...have the janitor take care of my fire. He usually arrives in the morning at about five o'clock, never later than six, except on very cold mornings-on such mornings he is very early at eight. His approach, arrival, and entrance, are all matters of great interest to me. The nature of his movements is very fortunate. I am awakened by the distant but slow approaching dill of his tread, so that the bursting open of the door, like the grande finale of a series of thunder claps is not as alarming as it might be; the previous rolling...
...publish to-day a short sketch of what is destined before long to become an incorporate part of the University, the far famed Annex. Although this institution has aroused great interest in educational circles, it is, we fear, looked upon with too much indifference by the students of the college. We have known men to graduate without having the faintest idea of the relation which this, to them, almost mythical institution bears to the University. But whatever the attitude of the students may be towards the Annex, the professors surely, look upon it with the greatest favor. Prof. Byerly...
...Constitutions, which, by reason of the length of their history, and the influence which they have exercised on statesmen. have most interest for the student of political evolution-those of Rome and England-belong to the same type ; the type usually described as unwritten, because in the main their rules and principles rest far more on usage than on any organic statute or body of statutes. In contrast with these is a class of Constitutions now beginning to attract more notice, and illustrated by those of Switzerland and the United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly...
...them the seats for the students rise above the lecturer in almost perpendicular tiers. In one of them is the portrait of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, presented to the school by his friends, when he retired from the chair of anatomy a year ago. The laboratories are of little interest to the average man, but are the places where the students spend much of their time and with which they are most familiar...
...stranger, the spot in the whole building of most interest is the Warren Museum, situated in the front of the upper stories. Here are gathered all things medical, in a collection which has not an equal in this country. It was founded many years ago by old Dr. John C. Warren, one of the celebrities of the medical profession, and a man much interested in the school. Among them are many very curious things which would fill the soul of a dime museum propritor with envy. As, for instance, a cast of the skull of the horned woman...