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...University of Leipzig more than two hundred students are gathered together to listen to the learned Professor Curtius, whose fame is now world-wide. Here I have repeatedly sat during the hottest days of July, when not a single one of the dozen large windows was ever opened. And there we had to sit and breathe, however much we might feel that the wise things the lecturer was saying were reaching our ears through a poisoned medium. Though an attempt was made on the part of Americans to admit the pure air, Professor Curtius was petitioned by the Germans...
...mere hearsay from accredited fact. We learn, however, that this plan was proposed to the Library Council, and was not approved; but that there will probably be some simplification and abbreviation in the present system of card catalogue. The numerous and vigorous advocates of more reading room and of open alcoves will perhaps be pleased to learn that it is the present intention of the Library management, on the completion of the new part, to fill the floor of the old building with reading tables, and to have certain alcoves containing books of reference and those most in demand accessible...
...lark are very much in earnest; this is particularly the case with law students, some of whom have threatened to leave the Association unless a change is made. Accordingly, the Directors, at their last meeting, voted to have breakfast begin at seven, and to have the doors remain open until half past eight, hoping thus to accommodate both the early and the late risers. The plan was adopted, however, subject to the steward's approval, and as the steward objects to having the doors open for more than an hour, it cannot go into operation. It is now proposed...
...high rank for his daily bread, has few of the amenities of life. After six or eight hours of sustained intellectual effort, an hour or two in the course of a week spent in dancing, or a half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists imagine. The very fact that to hold a scholarship requires extraordinary abstinence, self-control, and mental strength, disproves the much-harped-upon liability to excess in matters of self-gratification...
...fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake up in the morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing with red-hot coals. If I go out, and leave the window open to cool it off, I come back and find that...