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...elected to the St. Paul's, the Chess Club, the Institute, or the Athenaeum, etc., ad infinitum, and have encircled their shingles with gray passe-partouts; when they have carelessly slung any medals that they may possess over the shingles aforesaid, and when they have put photographs of a popular actress or two - probably Rosina Vokes, and some loose character in tights - on their mantelpieces, they have paid attention enough to aesthetics. They appear to regard pictures, and decorations in general, as convenient inventions to fill bare walls; they appear to decorate their rooms, if they take the trouble...
...your walls or your mantel-piece in the condition in which they at present are, and you are reminded of nothing but this same slow sort of thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress; certificates of admission to half a dozen more or less popular societies; a French print of a grinning grisette; at best a third-rate Landseer or two, in which the dogs and the wilder beasts unconsciously lead your mind back to sporting matters, - that is all that you will probably discover, and your thoughts will not wander a dozen miles from your...
...food at Memorial has lately grown steadily worse and worse; at present it is nearly unbearable, and as "man cannot live by bread alone" he must either leave Commons or cease to live. The late dinners have proved very popular, and during October the fare was passable, but it is now so wretched that some change is needed, and the sooner it is made the better. We refer our readers to a very carefully written article on this subject, and we fully agree with the sentiments it expresses...
THIS book has been so popular in the past that comment on its general usefulness would be superfluous. It is only necessary to say that its usefulness is much increased in this new edition. The book now seems to be so complete as to meet every requirement in its way. Many a dispute has been settled and many an author studied heretofore, with its aid. The present edition will therefore meet with a welcome reception, having been much enlarged by additions from many authors before unrepresented as well as from those well known in connection with former editions. As many...
...politics, don't read, won't study, and can't even talk outside the limited tether of college elections, gossip, the theatre, the lightest reading of the Saturday Evening Gazette, and the funny columns of our daily newspapers, - and you are one of that class, and a very popular man, if that comforts you. Good night...