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...feel poetic, and had just taken out my stylograph for the purpose of penning a tender little sonnet on the cream-colored tops of my gaiters, when the conductor shrieked out, "Portland! Portland!" Here we took on several families of Maine emigrants, who, being unable to endure the rule of the oligarchical greenbacracy by which that country is oppressed, were coming to seek new homes and new fortunes in the United States...
...seems to be one of the cases where such an apparent injustice is unavoidable. It was absolutely necessary for the reputation of the Association that the disgraceful occurences should be stopped at once; and the Board of Directors, after a long discussion of possible methods, decided on this new rule as the only one that would be both practicable and effectual. We are sure that, even now, they would gladly accept any suggestions as to a way of solving the difficulty without such a stringent exclusion as is at present necessitated...
...well known that young men, when without proper supervision and direction, disregard the most elementary rules of hygiene. They bathe and exercise directly after eating; and, especially, they eat directly after exercising. Now it is to prevent, as far as may be, this latter injurious habit that the Gymnasium is closed at 5.30; for most of the men who exercise there board at Memorial Hall, where the dinner hour is from 5.30 to 6.30. If, therefore, the Gymnasium were kept open till six, those who stayed until that time would have to rush straight from their exercise to their dinner...
...instructors who use the Gymnasium, but one or two take their meals at Memorial; the rest have no need to hasten to their dinner. That the present rule was made with especial reference to the dinner hour at Memorial, and not for the accommodation of these instructors, is conclusively proved by the promptness with which the time for exercise was extended to six o'clock, when the dinner hour was changed to six; and by the fact that the instructors did not apply for permission to exercise after 5.30 until that hour had already been decided upon as the time...
...discontent expressed at the promptness with which the lights are turned out at the appointed time, this touches, not the rule itself, but the manner in which it is carried out. There would be exactly as much growling if the lights were put out promptly at six o'clock. The malcontents do not seem to appreciate that a rule, especially one that has to deal with such a large number of individuals, to be of any use, must be rigidly enforced...