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...Bowdoin College student, who says he has been there, gives his views on the romance and profit of spending the summer vacation as a hotel waiter. He says the summer months are given the student to rejuvenate his mental faculties and tone up his physical constitution, and seems to think the one is not accomplished by association with the help usually employed around hotels or the other by sleeping in laundries or under bowling alleys. As to the financial success of the scheme he is equally skeptical, his experience seeming to have been that the cooks got the greater part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/26/1886 | See Source »

...three buildings, a lecture hall, a dormitory and a gymnasium, while still another dormitory is still to be erected. The site of the college is a high hill in the midst of that picturesque and undulating country near Bryn Mawr which is so deservedly popular among Philadelphians as a summer resort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bryn Mawr College. | 2/22/1886 | See Source »

There is another engine in a different part of the room, the exact counter-part of the first, so that if one should get out of order, the other could be put into immediate use. Sometimes in summer, when the season has been unusually dry, both of these engines have to be kept going in order to keep the city supplied with water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Water Supply. | 2/10/1886 | See Source »

...placed in the second position," "was sent on the second errand," "would go the second of next month," "had departed on the second steamer," "intended to wait on the second step," and "happened to be the next substitute;" Wer staubt hier im Zimmer ab? "Who stops here in the summer?"; sie hatte sich verrathen, "she was married;" er streckte die Linke nach den Briefen aus, "he placed his left hand against her cheek," and "he stuck the stamp on the letter;" sie zog sofort eines der Bucher hervor, "she drew on softly one of the boots;" sie musste die Wahrheit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German-English. | 2/6/1886 | See Source »

Professor Summer of Yale is delivering lectures there on Socialism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/1/1886 | See Source »