text:  I think he had some slight acquaintance with our then vice-principal--a good-natured easy man--and Horace had got leave for him to occupy a set of very small dark rooms which as the college was not very full had been suffered to remain vacant for the last two or three terms; they were so very unattractive a domicile that the last Freshman to whom they were offered as a Hobson's choice was currently reported in the plenitude of his disgust to have take his name off the books _instanter_