Word: known
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...year, you will probably have to go through a good deal of pecuniary tribulation in the shape of accounts and economies of various kinds. But however bothered you may be about the best way to make both ends meet, don't complain aloud. A man who is known to be in want of cash is very apt to find himself in want of friends too; but a person who does not talk of any lack of money is not generally suspected of anything worse than a slight tendency to avarice, which, on the whole, is a desirable characteristic. In money...
...SHOULD like to point out to the Seniors a singular insatiability of former classes in the matter of Class-Day orations. Not content with sitting in the Chapel for two hours, on what is well known to be the hottest day of the year, and listening to an orator who seldom has much to say that is worth hearing, they have been in the habit of adjourning to the open air to solace themselves with another oration...
...more people you please in the world the better off you will be; and although it is known that an attempt to serve God and Mammon at the same time is sure to end in failure, I have reason to believe that by careful management the same person may win the favor of college tutors on the one hand and of college students on the other. And your endeavors during the beginning of your course ought to be directed to that end. So I shall now try to tell you in this letter when you had better study, and when...
...make up our minds whether we will support him in his efforts to produce a winning crew, or whether we will betake ourselves to our cigarettes and let matters at the boat-house slide along as they can. Whichever course we choose, we should make known our decision at once. Let us either withdraw the challenge we have voted to send Yale, or wake up and refute such slanders as the one at the head of this paragraph...
...broken-down health and a little-known name...