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...have gone away from Cambridge for the last time, will look back to the time when he boarded at Memorial with no small degree of pleasure. Even now as we return after a vacation, we feel a certain pleasure in sitting once more among the noisy groups at the plain rectangular tables in the dining hall. It requires only a few months for a student to get used to the hurry-of his fellow students, not of the waiters, and the noise and clatter. If later he happens to take a meal at a private table, he notices the quiet...
...lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the commander's statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans under the weight of the massive edifices which have s rung up all around them, crowned by the tower...
...fair undergraduates, we can appreciate to better advantage our fair surroundings. After a highly interesting walk about the grounds we enter the main building and at once find ourselves in an interior that is luxurious to one who is accustomed to the hard benches and plain walls of Harvard. We enter the Browning room. There is an Amherst man over there. We stare at him. He becomes confused, but our further triumph is cut short by the questions of the fair ones. "Do you have rooms like this at Harvard?" "Oh, yes," we reply, as we gaze aghast...
That all who shall hereafter be admitted, when they commence sophomores, shall have the addition of frogs to the button holes of their coats, the cuff of the sleeve to be plain...
That when they commence junior sophisters, their coats shall have the further addition of frogs on the button side, -continuing the plain cuff; and they shall also provide themselves with black gowns, having a close sleeve and slit cuff, to be made according to the direction of the corporation...