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 or a sizing (ration) of bread, or beef, might be sold to the student by the butler.” The time and trouble they spent in pulling and hauling their close-fisted fetish along the rocky road of opposition and misfortune would almost have sufficed to run another college. And all this stream of misdirected effort was not only in the main wasted, but was diverted from the proper channels of the University’s progress, which was incalculably hindered in consequence.