Word: afters
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"The moral results of this scheme were excellent, but yet the contribution-box was never empty; and I put in the most money, for the provocations to profanity which an ingenious chum can invent are infinite. But although there was always some money in the box, it seemed to me...
In college the most careful and painstaking students receive the highest percentage of marks; but they are not brilliant men, nor do their fellows always admit that they are the best scholars. Thus, certain affable, graceful, and politic men, able in popular amusements, are admitted into clubs and societies to...
Sturdy honesty of purpose, it seems to us, is so much better than any kind of policy, that we wonder any are found so impolitic as to surrender it on any terms. A man with a plain, honest character, simple and unostentatious, is too anomalous an individual in college to...
But one thing was needed to make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry...
An infusion of some new life seemed necessary, and to this end the members worked sedulously to diversify and render the performances interesting by every means in their power. These efforts were successful in a marked degree, and the society can point to its records for the last six months...