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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR JACK, - You took my last letter so good-naturedly that I am going to reward you with another; and, as you seem to be rather doubtful as to the comparative expediency of studying and of doing nothing, I shall preach to you this time about college work. You ask me whether it is advisable to study or not. It is pretty much as if you had asked me whether it was advisable to be good; and my answer will be the same. Of course you ought to, but sometimes you had better...
...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 you had better...
...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
There being no other State from which more than a dozen students have come to College, we cannot afford space to enlarge our list. If our readers desire further information, we shall be very glad to answer any questions they may ask us by letter or otherwise...
...paper which enjoys so high a reputation for intellectual and philosophical eminence as does the Advocate will, in all probability, regard with silent contempt any suggestions made to it by so insignificant a person as a contributor to the Crimson. But I cannot refrain from closing my letter with the remark that a paper that desires to have any influence upon public opinion ought to endeavor to maintain some reputation for accuracy; and that if such a paper feels called upon to find fault with a body of men who are at least the social and intellectual equals...