Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hegel. In character and life Hegel is perhaps the least imposing of the real first class thinkers. He was in nowise either graceful or heroic, but simply a selfseeking, laborious, shrewd, quarrelsome man, faithful to his office and to his flatterers, and proud of his barbaric style. As a boy he was pedantic and thoroughly objective. Yet even in the diary which he kept when he was fifteen years old there appear warnings of the deep delight he was later to take in the paradoxical, and the professional mind-dissecting air which followed him through life...
...condition of affairs which, everyone maintains, exists now-a-days at Harvard. It reflects upon everyone in college, for if a group of representative men, chosen only because they can sing, cannot be trusted, then the college at large is not trustworthy. There is a deal of school-boy tone attached to all the arguments which we have heard so far against the trip which is humiliating to say the least. If the fact that the great majority of Harvard under-graduates are just as much interested in upholding the good name of the college as any of the graduates...
...dwelt upon. Through all the temptations of a newspaper editor's life, Bryant never swerved an inch from what seemed to him the path of honor. An interesting incident in his life, now made public for the first time, is a letter written in 1814, when Bryant was a boy. He was much excited over the war with England, and the way in which "His Imbecility," as he called Madison, treated New England; and urged the enlistment of state troops in Massachusetts, on exactly the same arguments which he so earnestly fought against when advanced by secessionists...
Although it is generally considered unnecessary, and even a waste of time for a boy who expects to go into business to go to college, Mr. Smith thought this idea is being gradually eradicated, for the ideal merchant of the present times must be an educated man in order to keep up with the times. Integrity is of course absolutely essential to a business man. The speaker said too that every young man should learn to speak French and German if he wished to have the best chance of succeeding, and the Spanish language must be regarded as of increasing...
...vote of thanks has been tendered the freshman Glee and Banjo clubs by the Monday night section of the Boy's club for their kindness in giving the concert in the Social Union hall...