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...into college; he passes the entrance examinations, and judges that he is in the seventh heaven; four years seem such a long time that he never thinks of looking beyond; he gives himself up wholly to college life; he becomes careless and unmethodical; he has not the faintest idea of what business habits are; he is utterly unable to keep an account of his own expenses; he fails to make any distinction between the meum and the tuum; in short, while he develops intellectually and, let us hope, morally, he remains at a stand-still as to all practical matters...
...time and space. Our readers understand clearly enough that questions as to courtesy and gentlemanlike treatment cannot be settled by any amount of writing. They understand, also, only too well the reception which our Nines and Teams generally receive at New Haven. Yale undergraduates seem to lack the faintest idea of what hospitality is, and we have no desire to undertake the hopeless task of teaching them...
...Metropolitan and St. James clubs. This act of courtesy was highly appreciated, and Sunday was spent in visiting these clubs, in sight-seeing, church-going, etc., and closed with the inevitable visit to the Jesuit Cathedral, where the ever-watchful beadle (who quickly recognized us) listened attentively for the faintest allusion to "Guibord...
...murmur in the faintest, dreamiest chimes...
...several gentlemen could express the violence of their indignation only by the use of words which even sporting papers banish from their columns. Most of them had no doubt but that some Freshmen resident in the entry were the guilty men, but none had the faintest idea what Freshmen. A dignified impenetrability, in short, characterized their demeanor, and, although the act has since been several times repeated, the Juniors have been obliged to let the matter drop in despair...