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Students' boarding houses have become a regular 

 institution in Calcutta. Within a certain radius of every 

 school and college in the central division of the city, 

 there are sure to be one or two such clubs. Some 

 among them have earned a sort of distinction as com- 

 pared with others ; and, all things considered, such dis- 

 tinction is not undeserved. There are boarding-houses, 

 for instance, which can claim as their inmates for a 

 succession of years a number of the most distinguished 

 members of that worthy race the students. No wonder 

 then that such clubs, distinguished alike intellectually 

 and morally, are never dissolved, and their traditions 

 never die. 



No 54, Carpenter's lane, was a club of some such 

 repute. A glorious band of undergraduates having just 

 vacated it for a better and more commodious tenement, 

 another batch of young men took occupation of the 

 house in the latter end of January 1869. It was an old- 

 fashioned structure, erected like most other buildings in 

 Bengal without the least regard to any style of archi- 

 tecture, ancient or modern, but with particular reference 

 to the demands of a growing joint-family. Be that as it 

 may, it was admirably adapted for a mess for students. 

 That the outgoing boarders should leave a legacy of 

 dust and dirt for the incoming ones to sweep and 



