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...professor, had occasion to go out for a moment, while the goody was at work there, he invariably locked the door behind him. His return was sometimes delayed; once he kept her locked up over an hour. One goody took care of his room many years, receiving a handsome weekly fee for her extra trouble. The janitor of the building was the only person whom he would trust alone in his room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled...
Lost.-An umbrella left at Memorial, had yellow handle with silver snake. Please return to 4 Holyoke...
...they will proclaim themselves the national champions. If the bewildered nation fails within the specified sixty days to produce a crew, and thereby gives involuntary color to the Pennsylvanians' pretensions, they might go further, and challenge Oxford and Cambridge, announcing that, if a favorable reply is not received by return of post, they will assume the title of champions of the world. [Advertiser...
...tried oarsmen of Harvard and Yale, merely because these latter parties have too many previous engagements to accept the challenge of this last aspirant for aquatic honors. College boat races cost more than any other kind of amateur contests because they make no money in return for the expense incurred. For this reason, any one college cannot undertake more than one or two races a year. Now Harvard is already saddled with two races for the coming summer and finds its hands full to keep its present engagements, and Yale seems to find enough to occupy all its attention...
...that every one in the college ought to be willing to support the society by becoming a member, but even if some do not look upon it in this light, they should never become mean enough to try to gain its advantages through their friends without paying in return the slight fees that it demands...