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...lectures in some course, then manifolds them with a copygram, by copying or by printing, and sells the copies at handsome prices. Often the compilers add to the notes taken in the lectures, the results of long, tedious hours of grinding in the library, systematize and index the whole, and publish them in the form of book leaves. One of these leaves, containing four or eight pages, comes out two weeks or so after the lectures are delivered. At the end of the year, if bound together, they make a most valuable book. Last year the notes in the course...
...whole of the first floor will be plainly finished in oak, with exposed beams slightly carved in the lecture rooms. As a precaution against fire the floors will be constructed like those in modern mills, with the exception of the upper flooring of seven-eighths inch maple. These floors will be constructed as follows: Immediately on top of beams is a layer of two-inch spruce, while above this is a flooring of seven-eighths inch maple. Another layer of hard wood is placed below the spruce and between the beams, furnishing a ceiling for the rooms below...
...have received full control of the grounds on Jarvis and Holmes, the investment does not seem a profitable one. Would it not be wise for some one of authority to let us know what the committee on the constitution has brought forth after months of labor? If the whole matter is understood by those interested, next fall we shall experience no such indiscriminate scrambling for courts as occur annually. Some persons are really curious to know if the Tennis Association will ever relapse into action, and among these is, yours truly...
...qualities before the end of our course, for there is good material in the class, but we cannot begin too soon to cultivate a proper amount of class spirit. For this purpose a class supper would be of the greatest possible value. It would unite the class as a whole for once in feeling and interests, as poor success in sports and poor prospects in athletics have as yet failed to do, and would go far to advance a spread of common feeling and of good fellowship among the members of '85 which has not yet been shown. The only...
...prolonged flirtation of half an hour with Miss L. the evening before, and I wondered then, as I always do, that it takes three times as long to describe a flirtation with a woman as the flirtation itself lasts; in fact, I know one man who has been a whole year telling me about a woman whom he never saw more than four times; he knows far more about her than he does about certain subjects which he has been working at for years. I am beginning to believe that some men have a sixth sense given them at birth...