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...only person whom he would trust alone in his room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled in an inglorious heap before Professor-then plain Mr.-Sophocles' door. The usual consequences followed, and on awaking next morning the student had a painful if vague impression of having had an interview with the proctor. Gathering himself together he went down to see what might be effected...
...grounds are large and on them the college sports are held each year; but it is inside that we find most to hold the attention. The dining-hall, like our Memorial Hall, contains quite a collection of portraits. Among them, hung over the entrance door, is a full length of Frederick, Prince of Wales, taken in 1828. Pictures of Lord Caines, Flood, Napier, Lord Kilwarden, who was dragged from his coach and murdered in the streets, long ago, and of many others. The hall itself, is long and narrow with windows high on the sides. The benches are hard...
...stroke. These stationary seats have now given place to short slides and long heavy oars. Two or three times each week the crew met at the boathouse or on the campus and take long runs into the country. These runs are usually about six miles in length and are made without stopping. The staying powers and strength of the men has been much improved by these extra long runs. The food at their training table is not very liberal, being confined to such as is calculated to produce only bone and muscle...
...spoke at once, at length and with great feeling, about his educational scheme. He had made his fortune, he said, in Louisiana. He had had scores upon scores of her best people in his younger days and in his maturer years as his best, his most intimate friends. They were well to do and had been enabled in consequence to send their sons, as was the custom of the day, to the North or to Europe for an education. All that was changed by the war. The sons of his old friends were impoverished. Their young sons could...
...west window was boarded up and the door was secured by several stout locks, which he always tightly fastened on leaving the room. Of the keys, which he always carried and often dangled in his hand, two were very old and large, from six to eight inches in length and of heavy wrought iron...