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From this brief sketch of the main features of Paris university life, so repugnant to our ideas and notions of such a life, I am sure all will agree with me when I affirm that for mental and physical comfort there is no place like Fair Harvard. Yours...
...confined within too delicate a frame to make itself felt in after life; more often they have to put a plodding and industrious crammable man on the same level with a man of genius who will distance him by an incalculable amount hereafter." Indeed malcontents are wont to affirm that this is done not only sometimes, but every time. But the judgment of the Cornhill writer will be accepted by most people as substantially correct...
...days passed and he did not come. He had utterly vanished from the face of the earth. You may imagine that this made no little sensation, not only in the college, but in the entire vicinity. I can honestly affirm that I did my best to unlock the door of this secret mystery; but my wildest conjectures resulted in no inkling of the truth. Indeed, I have heard it whispered that there were those who remotely connected ME with his disappearance; but the rumor did not reach my ears to disturb me then. Besides, I do not doubt...
...large, it is not necessary or fitting that we should speak; to the value of his long and well-spent life among us here, it is eminently proper that a tribute should be paid. We feel assured that we express the sentiments of the entire College when we affirm our lasting regret for the necessity of losing so faithful a pastor, so warm a friend. The best wishes and sympathies of all who have ever known him will follow Dr. Peabody in his retirement to private life...
...that the English surpass us in athletic sports? Various reasons have been assigned, among the most important of which are, the greater facilities for training, the high standard of English physique, and a hereditary excellence. All of these are undoubtedly true causes, although we may safely affirm that our opportunities at Harvard now equal, if they do not surpass, those of any English University; but the most telling cause of all is the greater amount of pluck among their athletes...