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...That is the Turkish and Russian baths on the first floor. These are very large and complete, accommodations for thirty men being provided. Connected with them is a splendid cold water swimming tank. It is the finest thing in the whole building, and is 70 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 13 feet deep at the shallowest point...
That, when they commence senior sophisters, they shall have the further addition of buttons and frogs to the cuff of their coat, and shall also have black gowns with a wide sleeve, -the mode to be determined by the corporation...
...very kind that you is, sor. I've no more ter say, sor, exceptin" that sometimes the gintlemin is rale ganerous now. Onct, sor, I found a table drawer open just wide enough fer the loike o' me ter see in, and in there, sor, was a five dollar bill, sor. I knowed that it wus put there fer me ter see, sor, and so I tuk it, sor, jest as any xise woman'd have did. It kept me and me five chillers a hull week, sor. The nixt day afther that, sor, I got promotion. That...
...operative Society has shown itself to be, we cannot help expressing some discontent at the delay with which some of the text books ordered through the society, are delivered. The delay has occurred again and again until its frequent recurrence has raised among the students a wide spread discontent. While five weeks are allowed for the delivery of imported books, it frequently happens that the books are not actually received by the students until a much longer period has elapsed. It has recently come to our notice that the last text books ordered from France, although ordered in October, were...
...attract but little attention. But having said so much for Oxford, patriotism leads me to add one word more. I believe that the average education afforded at both Harvard and Yale is of a higher order than that realized at Oxford. There may be more men here of world-wide reputation than at any university with us, but many of them are here as figureheads, and are no earthly value to the students...