Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FROM the "Letters" collected by Professor Thayer, we glean some interesting facts about the college life of the man pronounced by the London Academy "one of the finest philosophical minds which America or any country has produced," - Chauncey Wright...
...said I, "but don't you think you will miss the fellows, particularly your classmates? And what do you say to college life? Don't you enjoy that...
...thing" is so vast that it covers all the actions of life, from bawling in the cradle to delivering a Class Day oration, and is as uncertain as it is grand. All its admirers, however, unite in condemning certain actions as objectionable, and these, of course, are to be avoided by every true thing-worshipper...
...course, that it is not "the thing" ever to show the least excitement, wear spring-bottomed trousers, - or a thousand other things. The more important question is, What is "the thing"? and this we have never been able to solve, though we, like many others, have devoted our life to that end. Some say, "not to study"; others, "to dress well"; the Freshmen think they have found it at the Howard: but the general opinion seems now to indicate light ulsters...
...often pretend to like college life, and to believe in it when they really think it a sham. I for one have grown thoroughly tired of this "college life," and I think four years at Harvard quite if not more than enough...