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...excitement becomes intense. Every available standing place is occupied; every window is full; some housetops are covered. One original man has removed enough tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported him beneath, or whether he was prosaically...
...Yale News and the Princetonian, after a recess of two months, have again begun the foot-ball war in their columns. The slope of the ground on the Yale field is bitterly complained of by the Princetonian...
...rather a curious illustration of the barriers which conventional boundary lines may create, that Canada is represented in this college by only three students. The Pacific slope, which is ten times farther away, sends thirty students here; the city of San Francisco alone has twenty-two. And yet there is probably as large a well-to-do class in either Montreal or Quebec as there is in the American city. The great difficulty about attracting Canadian students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising...
...woods and streams, in fact the typical English landscape, so often set forth in the English novel, makes it seem impossible that the great metropolis should be so near. Harrow is by nature admirably suited for either recreation or study. The school buildings are located on the brow and slope of a high hill, commanding an extensive prospect on all sides. From the summit, part of six counties are visible, and the Surrey Hills, the Thames, Windsor Castle, and part of London meet the spectator's eye. Some of the buildings are very old, built in a massive style...
...Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities, except that they give a consumptive slope to the shoulders. The cramping of knees and elbows, and a high degree of hardness they have in common with the "forms...