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...their sections; but is it necessary that all should order of one man, thus establishing a monopoly in the book trade? The students suffer by it, and the number is large of those who go to the city to buy when they hear that they can get what they want there. I think there is plenty of room in Cambridge for another bookstore. If no dealer comes forward to supply the demand for books at better prices, the professors should take the initiative and divide their orders between Mr. Sever and some one else. They have the power to furnish...
BOTANY RECITATION. KIND-HEARTED INSTRUCTOR (who has asked Mr. Phlunk all the simple questions he could without getting an answer, and who does n't want to dead him utterly). "Ah - it is - monocot - I don't know...
...gone, and that his lady friends had gone too. When Shipkins realized the situation, he was terribly distressed, and persisted in declaring that he was all undone. His chum, however, rose to the emergency, and, after some arguments going to prove that if you can't get what you want you had better take what you can get, revealed to our poor Freshman the fact that there were a couple of amiable cousins of his in town, who would be only too willing to take the places of the missing maidens. At this the ill-fated Shipkins brightened...
...night of the grand reception, half a dozen of us gathered in his room, anxious to hear what we might of the doings at the reception. Dick had so arranged that we could all hear at the same time; which was a great convenience, since ordinarily, owing to the want of magnitude of the ear-piece, but one person at a time can have his ear at it, while the rest, his companions, must wait in tantalizing suspense, watching his expressions of interest and amusement without appreciating their cause. But by Dick's care we all had a chance...
...myself I acknowledge that some surprise is mixed with my gratification. Now, the thing that I have been puzzling my brains over is, why I should be surprised. In a University where the curve can affect either a ball or a mark indifferently; where the men who want to learn the most and study hardest get the lowest marks; where an instructor marks on the English system, and assures you, as he gives you sixty per cent, that this would entitle you to honors at Oxford or Cambridge; where you can calculate any action of the Faculty by the simple...