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...LEANED far out my window this May-morn To catch the scene so beautiful. Bright flowers Loaded the air with fragrance from rose-bowers, Freshening my heart by cruel fate uptorn. Nestling in new-clothed maples, the robin, born...
NOTHING is more soothing to the nerves of one cramming for the annuals than the click of the lawnmower under his window...
...Therefore we flatter ourselves that, high authority to the contrary notwithstanding, the College press is not without some appreciable influence. This year these literary policemen of ours have not conversed in tones which would disturb men outside of a radius of twenty feet, nor have they dropped the long window-stick more than once an hour on the average, nor have they even walked, two by two, past any given man more than a half-hour by the clock. This is in the highest degree praiseworthy, and we heartily congratulate them in their not altogether unsuccessful efforts at reform...
...cloudy wisdom that enwraps so many others of their proceedings. It may be that they fail to perceive the importance of the strains of the hand-organ as a soothing stimulation to study. It may appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling out of the window and addressing the dispenser of familiar airs in terms of slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates...
...however unfriendly a reception may be accorded to the organ-grinder within these classic precincts, in less cultured yards he is sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who drink in the charms of music and monkey with open mouths. Put him in front of a bay-window, with a couple of babies looking out in the seventh heaven of ecstasy, and a nurse to take off his hat to, and to lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring...