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...must pay what he agrees to pay or suffer the consequences. We have been informed, too, that the legs of the assistant treasurer of the H. U. B. C. are not made of iron. He is affected, like ordinary men, by ascending, many times, long flights of stairs in search of those who "will pay some other time." May we ask "those whom it may concern" to consider these facts...
FEELING sociably inclined, the other evening, I descended from my room in search of some one to smoke with, talk with, or walk with, it mattered not which, provided I could only gratify my longing to be with my fellow-men. One room after another I tried, where congenial souls are wont to congregate, but dark windows or unanswered knocks told the same story for all; and, at length, I found myself in the Yard, as companionless as ever. "Why, O my chum," I groaned as I gazed at the gloomy window-panes of my room, "didst thou avail thyself...
...obliged to take twelve hours, and this is ordinarily the most convenient division of the twelve. It often happens that one of the four courses has some particular interest which the others lack, or two may interest a man and the other two bore him; or he may search the list in vain for four courses all of which he is willing and able to take, and find perhaps three; settle upon them, then discover that every other course he wants conflicts with one of the three; - in all cases the result is the same. The twelve hours must...
...multitude of French romances have had for their subjects the adventures of Arthur and his knights, in war and in search of the Sangreal, and from them much of these histories was probably derived...
...vain do we search in our relentless critic's article for hearty, unbegrudged praise. Of some of the finest essays not a word. Were he disposed to be fair even, he could hardly fail to acknowledge the merits of "Quotation and Originality," of the "Progress of Culture." His complaint that he finds nothing practical in such a particularly unpractical, un-bread-and-butter subject as "Poetry and Imagination," and his surprise at hearing nothing new or startling on "Immortality," are fair specimens of his captious criticism...