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...epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry. It is an interesting fact that in many respects our southern exchanges are in the earlier stages just mentioned. Here is the last issue...
...that we believe our Harvard readers would like to see. It cannot be said that Harvard men are men of no opinions, but it can be said, with no little justice perhaps, that Harvard men are not as ready to express opinions as they should be. It is no conceit for us to say that the CRIMSON is one of the best means now existing by which college opinion may be expressed, and we would gladly see the paper become more a paper of college sentiment than it has been in the past. We have always been glad to publish...
...every way. Of all these things, it is to be hoped they will not be disappointed, that in a certain degree we believe they will not. But at the end there are two things of importance to be avoided, the danger of self-satisfaction, that is, of conceit for too much wisdom, and the danger of losing by neglect all that has actually been gained. The former danger is, the writer believes, the lesser. Four years at a college of any spirit at all are quite likely to take a large portion of a man's conceit...
...poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that he may not see Poverty as it passes by. Society he hates; ordinary men, men of the forum, are beneath his notice. Their institutions are follies to him. He is wise enough, in his own conceit, to rule the Parliament of Man; but never casts a vote at a civil election. What is politics to him? The play of infants...
Whatever may be the merit of the young gentlemen of the University of Pennsylvania as oarsmen, it cannot now be denied that they have an abundance of conceit. The boat club, in expressing, in writing, to Ellis Ward its appreciation of the valuable services rendered to the club by his unselfish devotion to its interests during the past five years, "unanimously resolve that, by his faithful, untiring and skilful efforts, he has brought the club from a state of obscurity to a foremost position among the colleges of America, Whether successful or defeated, the unparalleled and matchless form displayed...