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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same head. Study and gravel-digging are both dubbed "work," and work of any sort is thought "ungentlemanly," - a horrid word, by the way, which you ought never to use. A man who is always ready for everything, however, is rarely suspected of being a worker. And you will find before long that almost everything in college takes place in the evening...
Days, during the Freshman year, are spent in doing nothing in a "gentlemanly" way, i.e. in smoking, talking small gossip, and playing occasional games of poker for undergraduate stakes. And you will not find it difficult to pass most of your mornings in a way which will secure the favor of the Faculty. If any popular movement is on foot, you had better throw aside your work for the time being, and take part in it. But in ordinary times you will find that your evenings will give your classmates quite as much of your company as they will...
...find that my letter is as long as a real sermon, and I will close it at once, with the hope that you will have had the patience to read far enough to discover that it comes from
...instructors, almost without exception, have favored us during the past week with preliminary remarks." We have been told that this or that elective is not for loafers; that whoever elects this course for a "soft thing" will find himself deceived; that this University has had "enough of culture and too much"; and from another source, that culture is the aim of a University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands...
...might be decidedly improved. The editorials abound in what is called on daily papers "swashy writing." Many words are used to say what might much better be said in a few; and the words themselves are not all free from objection. Unless we are much mistaken, they will not find in either Webster or Worcester such a verb as "to inevitate" nor is the word sanctioned by any usage good or bad. But the Princetonian tells us that the accident to Columbia's rudder "inevitated an exhausting and irritating pull." If the new paper will tell us more of what...