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...What is a proctor?" asks the new-comer...
...Well, what is your name?" I inquired of the new-comer...
...great advantage, while apparently it would inconvenience none. The hour of all the club tables is six, and undoubtedly many prefer clubs to Memorial Hall largely on this account. It may be urged that those who like can come at six, but the dinner which the late-comer gets is not one which tempts a repetition of the tardiness...
...uncertain and ever-receding location which goes under the non-committal name of "Down East," a slight touch of indigenous brogue in a Freshman is excusable - for three months or so. A generous critic might allow him a year to wear off such gaucherie. But how can the new-comer fail at once to notice the wide discrepancy between his pronunciation and that of educated people, if, of course, he be of ordinary intelligence? His only safe course is to turn to his Worcester and abide by that pronunciation which has the balance of authority, whether it involves a revision...
...interest among them, with the desire of working as he would have wished. The Laboratory was hung with sentences from his lips and his writings; not a day passed when his name was not mentioned; and often a student of last year could be heard telling a new-comer of some act of kindness and thoughtfulness on the part of the great teacher...