Word: forli
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Being under the necessity of purchasing some coal one day, I chanced to ask him, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in my voice, how much coal he had used this winter. He replied, "I have only about half a ton left." Some time after I happened to see one...
Having been invited to write something for a college paper, I complied with the request and sat down one day to gather a few scattered thoughts. With his usual inquisitiveness he asked me what I was doing. I answered "Writing." He wished to know "about what." I replied, "Loafers," and...
SOME seasons of the year seem especially adapted to the making of good resolutions for the future, without a fresh supply of which at least annually few men get along. For the student, such a season begins with the announcement of his semi-annual examinations. It is then that his...
Not only does this hold true in matter of studies, but also in our intercourse with men; for here lies a great field for education. How much valuable acquaintance do we lose by the restrictions of class and clique feeling! That this has in a measure been broken down of...
In short, it seems evident that the tone of the college is not what it should be. Broader principles of education must be developed, and men induced, by a feeling of personal responsibility and free choice, to take in hand the guidance of their own fortunes, and begin to think...