Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...necessary to give him everything; he will give me his company for nothing, and take us dyspeptic students away from our books with his prattle. And bless the old pedler who will sell me his oranges and throw in an hour's talk about his life, giving me something to think of outside my own, and something to laugh at besides college jokes. Bless the dog-man who will tell me about the latest addition to "Missy's" family. Bless the delicate young creature who will kiss me if I buy a basket (I would...
...some new theological works, by Professor Abbot; and another on "Puritans and Separatists," by Mr. Winsor. There is also a list of easy German reading; one of interesting volumes in the Sumner Collection; and finally a list, with notes, of the principal books relating to Michelangelo's Life and Works, by Professor Norton. In this variety of subjects, every intelligent student must be able to find one at least which will be useful to him, and as the price of the Bulletin is about that of a glass of beer, few need deprive themselves of it from motives of economy...
...writer of the letter was either ignorant of the actual facts of the case, or else guilty of intentional misrepresentation. The truth is that when Mr. Goddard took charge of the crew, the prospects were anything but encouraging; there were but few men trying for positions, and scarcely any life was shown in the matter. It was very largely owing to the interest he took in the crew that more applicants presented themselves, and that the men were brought into some sort of shape. It is asserting but little to say that Mr. Goddard took a good deal of pains...
DOUBTLESS the marking system will long remain, as now, the mystery of mysteries of college life, - one of those things which, as Lord Dundreary would say, "no fellow can understand." In vain we seek of the Faculty, of proctors and instructors, of graduates and undergraduates, for an exposition of the principles of this mysterious institutions, which hear without argument, judges in secret, and from whose decision there is no appeal; an institution unmoved by entreaty, callous to criticism, and stoically indifferent amidst the ruin it has wrought. It is not my present intention to censure this system...
...alluding to the contrasts that exist between English and American student-life in regard to manners and morals, President Eliot thinks the tone of manners there better than it is in American colleges...