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...very likely to fail if he does not. Men of natural ability often come to surpass their more talented class-mates because they are aiming at some definite object, they are more tenacious of purpose than those who, though more gifted, do their work in a careless, aimless way. - Amherst Student...
...outside reading. The establishment of courses of summer reading should be made general throughout the college. The effectiveness of the present system of study would be enormously increased while conforming to the convenience and task of all. The students would by this means be saved from the too common aimless reading of leisure moments, and would have their minds directed into a channel which would repay every effort, at the same time that it would relieve the harsher strain of studies more peculiarly collegiate in their character...
...present we have no reading room at College, this plan would fill that vacancy. And it would do more than this, for it would discourage the aimless reading of anything and everything which is found in a newspaper and would render more possible a connected understanding of the public events about which every student should know something...
...water; then it loiters idly, hour after hour, in the still waters near the shore. It floates under the noonday sun, and sees the hooks and lines of innumerable lazy fishermen and the naked legs of bathers in the floating baths. It floats in the cold moonlight and bobs aimlessly against the bottoms of the anchored boats, thump, thump, thump, gently and aimlessly. It drifts against a pier, and the purpled fingers are actually washed against a rope which is dangling into the water; but they cannot grasp It-indeed, it is doubtful if they wish to; what...
...extends to our choice of reading. But if we spend a little more forethought on what we ought to have by us when the desire to spend an hour or two in reading came upon us, we would gain great returns for our trouble. A great part of the aimless reading of the summer is a direct result of pure carelessness. If we should only take proper precautions to have by us some of the books which we have determined to read before the advent of warm weather, we would undoubtedly accomplish far more than if we trusted to chance...