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...amusing way of doing nothing to sit in one's room half dozing, and listen to the steps that come along the entry on their way to the rooms overhead. It is quite an instructive occupation too, presenting, as it does, a wide field for the cultivation of the listening faculty. In the course of a dozen or two such sittings, one gets to know the peculiarities of each individual step, and recognizes the passer-by as clearly as though the partition were transparent. When I hear various preliminary kicks at, and slams of, the neighboring doors, a shuffling step...
...glad to see that the Professors have decided to appear in caps and gowns on Commencement Day; this may be considered a step in the right direction. It certainly has detracted very much from the pleasure and dignity of Class Day and Commencement that this step has not been adopted before. Now, to revive a rather antiquated subject, we should consider it a second step in the right direction if the students should follow the good example of those from whom they have derived so much benefit, and do the same thing. It would be much less expensive...
...some accounts greatly to be regretted that in College societies the theory of government is so entirely disregarded that any settled course of policy is impossible, and the society is led on, step by step, by mere momentary whims of the majority, or by the influence of its affairs, until the original constitution is entirely forgotten. At Memorial Hall, however, the case is even worse than this, since there no constitution is to be found; for the "Scheme for carrying on the Dining Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left...
...look after her ticket, seat, trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed off at the speed of six miles a week. At about every other telegraph-post, just as the baby was getting tranquillized, the conductor would step into our car and "holler," "Tickets, please. Change cars for - " we could n't hear where, but we surrendered a coupon and moved into the baggage-car, that being the only obvious change; and just as the baby was calming down again, we would come to another post and have...
...shuffling and timidity; Harvard, indeed, the oldest and largest university in the land, whose children hold - and have always held - the foremost places in the occupations of our countrymen, is to be disgraced, should she choose, with a score of sound reasons at her back, to take a step which by malignity may be misconstrued...