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...number of those who are excluded from the privileges of the room by the regulation against smoking is much larger than is generally supposed. The hours of college-work are so arranged that the time which any one gets to devote to newspaper and magazine reading is only the "odd moments" which come directly after meals or early in the evening. At least nine out of every ten men in college smoke, and any one who smokes at all smokes just at the odd moments which he could most conveniently spend in the reading-room. The natural result is that...
...jewelled dames bedecked, nor costumes odd...