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...toast-master, Mr. Macaulay, then, after a few remarks, gave the first regular toast of the evening, "Alma Mater," to which Mr. Stetson replied. "The Class of '78" was answered by Mr. Thayer, and "The First Ten" by Mr. Blaine, President of the Institute, from '78. Mr. Kidder was then called upon to reply for "The Ladies," and Mr. Swift afterwards made some remarks in answer to the toast, "The Institute of 1770." He said that the Class of '77 had somewhat changed the society by making it less formal, and he advised the class, which was about to carry...
...five Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities or the Church. Among the officers at Cambridge have been Macaulay, Earl Grey, Chief Justice Cockburn, Bulwer Lytton, and Archbishop Trench; at Oxford, Earl Stanhope, Gladstone, the Earl of Elgin, the Duke of Newcastle, Robert Lowe, the Earl of Dufferin; there may be other names which I have passed over in ignorance...
...yonder by the flashing pages of Charles Reade. They seek only the pleasures of literature, and slight observation will convince us that they delight in these only when easily obtained. Where grow the more sober plants of history and biography their fancy seldom leads them. The rich stores of Macaulay and Prescott lie too deep for their shallow taste. The sole care of these literary butterflies is to draw pleasure from the writings of other; that they never add the smallest morsel to the food of the reading world grieves them not in the least; nor do they mourn that...
Some cynical old bookworm complains that it is not worth while to spend one's time talking with college fellows; it's better to read Macaulay, Carlyle, or Lowell, and so learn something that will be worth remembering, - Mndev ayav. It is true the conversation when fellows meet socially is not usually very profound. It would not be profitable to take careful notes of the remarks made, for future study. Emerson has said more weighty, and Holmes more witty, things than one often hears on such occasions; yet these desultory conversations are very useful as a part of college life...
...right volume and page, and name his authority; the larger his library grows, the greater the knowledge he has at his service. He does not store his brain with facts, he lays them aside on his shelves. Few of us are gifted with the memory of a Macaulay or of a Charles Sumner, but require guide-books to direct us through the paths of literature...