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...fact. The difficulty of obtaining such permission has been so great of late years, that entertainments of this kind are almost matters of the past. Yet the Committee have been pleased to consider favorably a petition sent in by some members of Seventy-Nine, and have given their assent, imposing very few conditions. These performances are to be given in aid of the University Boat Club, by the Senior Class as a whole, not by any one society, and will take place about the middle of December in some private hall in Boston. We cannot but express our pleasure...
...belief in angels; you know the prayer of one of the Apostles, 'Angels and ministers of grace defend us.' " Theological Student: "That is not in the Bible." 2d Junior: "Of course it is n't; it's in the book of Common Prayer, and that is no authority. Universal assent...
...Ossip's" reply that we do H. H. neither harm nor good we can, in general, assent. But he implies, by saying that the expression of our disapproval establishes our reputation as a meddlesome character, (1) that H. H.'s language is none of our business, and (2) that the expression of our disapproval effects no good at all. The truth of the first implication evidently depends on the truth of the second, namely, that nothing is improved by our expression of disapproval. This is the point to which we object; this is the point against which we propose...
...said often that Harvard no longer produces literary men. While we do not assent to this sweeping proposition, we do see, in the recent choice of subjects for the next Commencement exercises, an argument in favor of the assertion. Of the nineteen men to whom were assigned Commencement parts, no one of them chose a literary subject: political economy, philosophy, and history were well represented, and one or two men expressed a liking for fine-arts, but literature had no friends. Undoubtedly, many will see in this fact a defect in the instruction given in college; but we think that...
...called a fool. And I think that I hardly need tell you that it is very impolitic to differ from any man's opinion in regard to the proper management of his pocket. Disagree as much as you please in thought, but listen with equal amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same thing. All I tell you to do is to listen amiably to other men's nonsense, and to keep your own counsel. Remember...