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Conversation overheard at Memorial : Waiter No. 1 - "Dis am a fine structyah, Sam?" Waiter No. 2 (critically) - "De exteryh is very fine, sah, but dere is one thing I have notussed about de interyur, - dey have only got foah of de windows painted...
...feeling very well for several days, and on the evening in question he had started out, as he said, for a short walk, "to ??? me up a little." I had many times noted how nervous he had become. He started at any sudden sound, and often I had overheard him talking to himself. He had also complained of bad dreams; he certainly had been feverishly restless during these past few nights, and he had succeeded in infecting me with the same trouble. I knew that he was completely worn out, and I begged him to go home for a week...
...Williams Athenaeum holds up its hands in holy horror, as it says with bated breath: "The following conversation was overheard by one of our students at a fashionable watering-place this summer...
...dancing in Memorial Hall was a success, though we doubt whether the couple whose conversation we overheard as they entered the hall received as much pleasure from their waltz as they did from the music of the Harvard Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality...
...going out, when I heard a young lady opposite me say (once or twice on the way out I had freed myself from my meditations so far as to think her pretty, but how ugly does she seem to me as I remember her now!) - I accidentally overheard her say to a friend, "You talk about the intellectual face of a student; that one looked like a dolt. I should say he had stopped thinking." And I had been thinking about abstract truth and the immensity of space! I groaned, reeled, and staggered out of the car. A pedantic classmate...