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...twenty years since I was in college and roomed in Stoughton, - the north entry, if I remember rightly. I have not seen Cambridge since that time, being something of a wanderer. I live at present in Buenos Ayres, where I am engaged in business - but these autobiographical particulars have little to do with my story...
...bitterly disappointed. Careful scholarship has been ridiculed as pedantry before this, but it has at last invariably won just recognition. We are sorry that the Advocate has been so grossly misinformed as to the purposes of the New Shakspere Society and the conditions of Shakspere criticism at the present day. We fear that "common sense and sound scholarship" did not dictate its own remarks upon the subject...
...students. The College, by allowing attendance throughout the year at St. John's, has authorized such a practice; but it is more than doubtful whether the St. Paul's would be willing to support it, as the members seem to desire not to interfere in any way with present arrangements...
...service held in a small room. Have we not often hesitated to attend a vestry service when we would have slipped with great alacrity into a large church, sheltered from observation by its very publicity? Knowing the number of students who are not reached, as the phrase goes, by present religious influences, and the mistrustful feeling which this fact occasions in the minds of some, the Society hopes to remove at once the suspicion and its cause by establishing an institution which shall be a powerful organ of religious influence in the College. That the existing Episcopal churches cannot provide...
CHAPTER III.Tootsy had been in Cambridge for some time, and had been present at several tea-drinkings and other wild gayeties of this dissipated town. To be sure, she had caused her Aunt Prudence no little uneasiness on several occasions, and, as Miss Meeker herself expressed it, had actually made her grow thin (an operation which would seem to a casual observer very difficult of accomplishment...