Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every pleasant day the nine will be out on Holmes or Jarvis practising before empty benches. Let all who have the success of the nine at heart go out and fill these benches, and thereby encourage the candidates to do their best for themselves and for the college, Then if we win we can take some of the credit of victory to ourselves; if we lose, we can feel that we deserved to lose, that we were outplayed. There is no disgrace in defeat if every effort has been made to secure victory...
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...unwise. That is another question. It is a fact, however, that a paternal government, whatever its wisdom, always runs the risk of having rebellious subjects. It is a law of nature that every man should prefer to manage his own affairs himself, and if the government does not let him do so, it must look for insubordination...
...ankle deep in water, or step off the path and flounder ankle deep in mud. Now the expenditure of ten dollars would right this state of things: a small tile pipe would remedy the first defect, and a few hours labor straightening the stones would remedy the second. Let us hope that the authorities who are so eager that we shall tread in straight paths, will at least make them easy for our weary feet as possible...
...then is this danger to be met? No general rule can be given. Each son must decide for himself in accordance with the peculiarities of his own especial parent. However, let not the son swerve an instant from his duty; knowing the true course, let him follow it, remembering that the persistent elbowing of the little wave gradually crowds aside the giant cliff. Let him complain unceasingly, let him be alternately sulky, gloomy, and petulant, let him if necessary even resort to desperate dissipation,- and success is almost inevitable...