We were not able to provide enough bed-clothes to keep the students warm.

In fact, for some time we were not able to provide, except in a few cases, bedsteads and mattresses of any kind.

During the coldest nights I was so troubled about the discomfort of the students that I could not sleep myself.

I recall that on several occasions I went in the middle of the night to the shanties occupied by the young men, for the purpose of confronting them.

Often I found some of them sitting huddled around a fire, with the one blanket which we had been able to provide wrapped around them, trying in this way to keep warm.