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...Noera, Gentlemen's Furnisher, has just received a line of neck wear and gymnasium goods from New York and Philadelphia...
What they have probably done is this: They have formed a young ladies' fire company. They wear a pretty uniform, with feathers in their hats and flowing sashes of pink ribbon. They have provided themselves with neatly japanned water pots instead of a fire engine, and they have resolved when a fire breaks out to form a circle round about it, and to pour water on it from their watering pots while singing that beautiful song, "Water, bright water, for me, but gin for the masculine fire ladies:" They have signed a pledge never to go up a step ladder...
...effect of this armed suspicion is upon the instruction given, upon the students themselves it is even more depressing. Not content with ticketing us off with all Russia, indeed, by means of passports, the Government even forces on us the ignominy of a uniform which we are obliged to wear, under heavy penalties, at all times outside the University walls. We are treated as natural enemies and spies are set to watch us at every corner. No social position is given us. The army is the road to influence. We are permitted no discussion of local matters, much less matters...
Lost.-Will the gentleman who wore off by mistake a "Collins and Fairbanks" high stiff hat, somewhat too large for him, from the shelf at the upper end of Memorial on Monday, at dinner, please wear it to dinner tonight and exchange it for his own, thereby relieving the owner of the missing one from the unpleasant necessity of wearing a hat that is too small...
Lost. -Will the gentleman who wore off by mistake a "Collins and Fairbanks" high stiff hat, somewhat too large for him, from the shelf at the upper end of Memorial on Monday, at dinner, please wear it to dinner tonight and exchange it for his own, thereby relieving the owner of the missing one from the unpleasant necessity of wearing a hat that is too small...