They passed a vote expressing a desire to preserve the premises in order, and for many years, and, for aught I know, to the present hour, the whole is kept as a room occupied by gentlemen should be kept.

At some other colleges, and those, too, sustaining the very highest rank among the institutions of the country, the doors of the public buildings are sometimes _studded with nails as thick as they can possibly be driven, and then covered with a thick coat of sand dried into the paint, as a protection from the knives of the students!!_ The particular methods by which the teacher is to interest his pupils in his various plans for their improvement can not be fully described here.
In fact, it does not depend so much on the methods he adopts as upon the view which he himself takes of these plans, and the _tone and manner in which he speaks of them to his pupils_.
A teacher, for example, perhaps on the first day of his labors in a new school, calls a class to read.

They pretend to form a line, but it crooks in every direction.

One boy is leaning back against a desk; another comes forward as far as possible, to get near the fire; the rest lounge in every position and in every attitude.

John is holding up his book high before his face to conceal an apple from which he is endeavoring to secure an enormous bite.