Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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However pleasant it may be for us thus to be indifferent to such things, we should still do well to remember that this will not last long, and that if, on leaving college to really begin life, we are inexperienced and unskilled in the transactions of every-day life, we must pay the penalty, and learn from a hard master what we should have known before...
...University Foot-Ball Club begin the season with vigor. At a recent meeting, Mr. Prince, '75, was elected Secretary and Treasurer. There will be games every afternoon on the Common. Matches will soon be played between '74 and '75, and with Tufts College...
...remark of an outsider to the effect that a Harvard graduate, however much he may know, can say but a few sentences on any subject, while a Yale man can talk fluently about anything that he does or does n't know, is n't it in order to begin a reformation somewhere? And if anywhere, it must be within the College course. The preparatory schools have as yet done little or nothing toward making writers or speakers of those they send out. It belongs, then, to the older institutions to take the lead, bearing in mind that while college...
...inferred from its title, "Turning-Points in Life" deals with those questions which are, at the same time, the hardest to answer and the most important in the lives of all men. It is, therefore, of especial interest to those who begin to see these enigmas looming up before them, near enough to present in full light all their knotty points, but far enough off to afford time for deliberation. On all the practical questions which he discusses, Mr. Arnold appears to speak impartially and carefully and with good judgment. More than this, however, we cannot...
...irksome, yet in the past year it has been rendered less arduous by the gentlemanly courtesies of subscriber and contributor. The reception which the Magenta met and the interest exhibited in its welfare warrant us in continuing its publication. The first official duties of the newly elected Editors begin with this number; augmented thus, the Magenta bids fair to improve...