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...Sunday afternoon, a few weeks ago, I was sitting in my room with a volume of Macaulay in my hand, musing upon the looks and character of my friend the school-boy, when there came a knock at the door. To my shout of "Come in!" there entered a person whom I at once recognized as the wonderful boy I had so long desired to see. His head was small; his eyes had a sleepy look in them, and were of dull gray; his nose inclined to the pug; and his mouth was large and inexpressive; but his hair...
...roomed in Holyoke. I did n't study very much, but still I led a pretty steady life. One night in the middle of October, about ten o'clock, there were four fellows in my room, and we were all laughing loudly over some bon-mots, when a knock was heard, and in came a head, which opened its mouth and gravely said, 'Gentlemen, it is after nine o'clock, and you are keeping me awake; I must therefore warn you to make less noise,' and then disappeared. 'It's your proctor,' yelled the company, - we broke up in disgust...
...community like ours, prolixity in our social relations must be endured to some extent; our prosy friend will often knock at our door at unseemly hours, disturb our quiet, and exhaust our patience, but, at least, let us be spared this abomination in our recitation-rooms and in our textbooks...
...SHUFFLING in the hall, a knock at my door, "Come in," and in comes Nicholas. He has a pair of bright black eyes, a glistening set of teeth to relieve a dark Italian complexion, and a rich mass of unkempt hair. Nicholas's vocation is candy-selling, but he does not confine himself to this vocation solely. On bright days he is to be found in the streets of Boston, singing to the accompaniment of an organ carried by his father...
...some of us, especially now in the semiannuals, cannot afford the time such a daily task requires. Now these difficulties might be removed by having the Secretary's boy go around each Monday morning and collect the petitions. It is a simple task, for, although at first he must knock at each door, he would soon learn what rooms he needed specially to visit, and could tell almost by intuition the men who had petitions. This may seem but a trifling suggestion, but as it concerns the comfort of so many we gladly make...