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...man is very intimate with another it is often possible to make an arrangement by which they shall both enjoy the luxury of rooming alone, and yet be at no great distance from each other. As far as entertaining a great number of visitors is concerned, the under-classman may think it an advantage that tells wonderfully in favor of a chum, but a larger experience probably informs him that there are many inconveniences attending such a way of living. Very often, too, it happens that, from no desire of your chum's or your own, company men drop...
Although in most of the buildings two bedrooms to a study lessen the inconveniences that used to exist, yet they all are by no means done away with. Unless a man retires to his bedroom, and such an action is an invitation to his friends to leave, he is never sure of a moment in which to study uninterruptedly. At Vassar they are so unmannerly as to do this; it is, in fact, rendered almost unavoidable by the huddling of five young lady chums into one study-room. To the studious, this system of chumming does more injury than...
Poor thing! Her hands must have been rather full, unless, as is suggested by the text, she carried her rustic song in her basket. She finds the old man and disclaims weariness...
...College press, deserves the thought of those undergraduates interested in social and moral problems, who expect hereafter to engage in affairs and deal with the tangled knots of reform. Delicate to handle it undoubtedly is, like everything that has to do with the practice or views of a man's associates. Moreover, the most earnest efforts are often misconstrued by rigid supporters of the pledge and prohibition. For this reason people of attainments and culture are disposed to be shy of the subject; they prefer to be silent, as if it was solely a matter of taste, not of right...
...they make up a considerable part of the students, whose ambition is not great, nor incompatible with occasional excess. Their position is such that they lose no friends, if they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they eat too much; no particular harm results in either case except to the individual...