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...Provide Clod-Shoes at the Entrance. Some students derive such subtle pleasure from hearing the reading hall resound with the click-click of their hob-nails on the marble edgings that we ought not to enjoin them to walk softly, but, rather, we ought to furnish them with clod-hoppers, the more to indulge that subtle pleasure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Liberty | 11/13/1922 | See Source »

...eating. Of course the evil is not wholly avoided even by the present precautions: those who stop exercise at 5.30 can still ruin their digestions, if they will, by hurrying off at once to their dinner. But the rule is effectual in many cases at least, and helps to enjoin upon us a proper system of healthful living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GYMNASIUM. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...making themselves felt through the college press. And this applies to the class as a whole, and not to those few who in their own or partial friends' opinion have literary ability. On such as have, perhaps, never entertained the thought of their ability to write, we would enjoin the advisability of trying; for the main requisite is to have something to say, and surely among so large a number it cannot be but there are ideas and information for which the college at large would be the better. The success of the college press should be a matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

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