Word: liking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems that the Wesleyan young lady was not chosen class-day poet, but poet for the class supper. The whole affair was a joke, and as soon as the young lady found out the character of the supper, which is like class suppers in general, she was glad to resign. There was no ill feeling on either side...
...like a fiend she reared her head on high
...students managed, and my observations at once amused and annoyed me. A number of very good fellows were there who had confined their social experiences to college societies, and who were delightfully ill at ease in the company of anybody but men of their own age. Some who, like you, were blest with assurance tried to conceal their diffidence by a sort of familiar impudence that was anything but creditable to their training. Others, of a temperament more like my own, betrayed their confusion by blushing, stammering, talking like idiots, and playing alternately with their gloves and their watch-chains...
Good society is something like heaven; its existence is often denied by those who have no hope of getting in. But at the same time it undoubtedly exists, and exercises an influence which is none the less for being unseen. And the more you have of it, the better for you it will be. I find that I am becoming horribly snobbish, so I shall hasten to close my letter. Always behave like a gentleman. If you want to do an impudent thing, do it in such a way that nobody will know that it is impudent till he stops...
...then, how I trembled when I entered Harvard Hall, and how my knees shook together at the sight of some figures on the blackboard which looked to me like all the diagrams in my geometry crammed into one. How nervously I laughed when a then unknown gentleman, while explaining the programme of the unhappy days, made a joke. How I rushed on the first opportunity to the fresh air, and sought for consolation in discussing the point of the joke with a friend in misery, until a live Sophomore whom we had the honor of knowing came up and gave...