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...else. The fact that Captain North was unable to row had much to do with the result, for it was impossible that even so good an oar as Mr. Foster could fill with his light weight the place in the waist of the boat formerly occupied by the "heavy man" of the crew...
...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...
...have the fortune, or rather misfortune, to be at a table each side of which is presided over by a different deity of the dining-hall. I sat meekly down, and looked around for my Henry; but my Henry was nowhere to be seen. A hungry man cannot wait. I was becoming anxious, when suddenly my Henry came rushing from behind the screen...
...dessert was brought; and I, a boating-man, made a dinner of a plate of ice-cream and some graham bread. I was thankful even for that, and partook of the feast in silence and meditation. I arose from the table, convinced that the great evil of the Dining Association lies not so much in the fare and in the preparation of it, as in the waiters. The two with whom I have been made acquainted, and all whom I have noticed, are in a chronic state of ill-humor, and sadly need...
...morning, for instance, instead of enjoying a quiet sleep, and getting up at a reasonable hour, we are roused by the relentless Jones with his prayer-bell. There is no instrument of torture yet devised by man which can cause more misery than a loud bell rung early in the morning. It is especially disagreeable when one has been up late the night before at a political or temperance meeting. The pretext on which it is rung, too, is a frivolous one. If a man insists on going to prayers, he can surely be awakened without rousing all the victims...