Word: life
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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WITHOUT intending to dispel any fair dream of present happiness that may dwell in the mind of any youthful student during the first few months of his college life, we may recall our experience and by comparison hope to arrive at some agreeable conclusions...
...magazines convince us that one is not needed here, at least, and would not succeed if once started. We shall, therefore, watch the course of the Review with great interest. The other paper, The Times, lays no claim to the highly literary, but is full of college news and life. Its founders have wisely adopted a plan somewhat similar to the one in vogue here. The editors are chosen from the four classes by the outgoing board. This is a great innovation, as the editors of the Era are from the Juniors, and are elected by the class, thus making...
...garden of life the plant of felicity is not a perpetual bloomer...
...this connection, the words of the late venerable Amos Lawrence have emphatic significance. "The difference," he says, "between going just right or a little wrong will be the difference of finding yourself in good quarters or in a miserable bog or slough at the end of your journey through life." This principle of justice carried out religiously through the space of thirty years, made Amos Lawrence one of our most wealthy and honored citizens. "I made it a rule," he says, "to have property to represent forty per cent more than I owed"; and, following out this rule, he rose...
...moribund condition of the association seems to have been chiefly due to the lethargy of last year's administration; and with the election of the present board of officers, the association seemed to take a new lease of life, and the evil day of dissolution was averted, for a time at least. The fact then came to light that of last year's Freshmen only thirty had become members; and these last really did not seem to enjoy any privileges from which the rest of the class were debarred...