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...dinner hour. In the morning he sleeps too long to relish his breakfast; at noon he lunches on soup and cold meats. But at half-past five he crowds into Memorial, is in good spirits, meets everybody and growls at the waiters. College House and Beck Hall sit side by side, discuss in familiar terms, and Harvard puts on her most cosmopolitan manners...
...destruction of Pach's studio by fire on Friday night last, necessarily interferes seriously with the work of photographing the class. However, as the books were saved and are legible, though more or less damaged by water, it can be ascertained within a short time just who are to sit again. In general it may be stated that all who had accepted negatives as satisfactory prior to 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, will not be obliged to make further sittings; all negatives selected up to that time were sent to New York, and so escaped destruction. Mr. Pach hopes...
...special request of the committee, Mr. Pach has consented to allow those seniors not satisfied with pictures already made, to sit again, provided such sittings be made within this week. By terms of the contract all sittings were to be finished today; and it is sincerely hoped that each member of the class will show his appreciation of the privilege thus extended by accepting a negative before Saturday night...
...students have of deciding who shall pay for the oysters. Several students come in and sit down. One opens the book and all note what letter of the alphabet is the second in the second line from the top of the left-hand page. The book is passed to each student in turn, who cuts or opens to a new place. He who has the letter furthest down the alphabet from the letter A has to pay for the oysters...
...explained that they wished Elsie and me to go up together, as pulling us up was a good deal more work than letting us down. I objected to this. There was hardly room in the bucket for little Elsie alone. If we went up together we should have to sit opposite one another on the edge of the bucket with the rope between, like the two sides of a pair of scales; and I feared that Elsie might get cramped and frightened before we reached the top. Besides, I noticed that about six inches above the bucket the rope...