Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PERHAPS those who intend to write on the third subject given out for the third Junior Forensic would like some good definition of the Bible, so here is Daniel Pratt's: "The Bible is a vocabulary of invisible images...
...heart, and make friends who will be useful to him. Policy is the keynote of a successful college career. Above all, never be enthusiastic; never work for any interest but a popular one, and be careful that you do not work too hard for that. College interests are like the enchantress in the fairy-tale, who, when the forty days of her fondness were over, made her lovers pay a terrible penalty for the crime of having once pleased her too well...
...Some, like the boat-clubs, die a lingering death for want of victims; others are kept alive by men who are too zealous to take-warning by the fate of others, or too blind to heed the smiles and sneers of their classmates. The prudent man will stand aside, and let others make martyrs of themselves. Farewell, Freshman. We have more to warn to-night. Remember the watch-word, Policy! Farewell...
...visitors were gone; but the Freshman still sat over the fire, with his head bowed upon his hands. How had his cherished ideal been overthrown by this revelation! His fair picture of college life had faded; and in its place was a gaudy thing, like one of those strange works of Turner, hideous and unreal. When will the Freshman be himself again? Perhaps in four years, - perhaps to-morrow. Until then we shall know him by his feigned face and mock-heroic air: for we, too, have all seen Humbug; and many of us, like the Freshman, have taken...
...Like sailors that escape...