Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reason why this plan should not meet with complete success. Members pay their fees directly to their officers, and are not allowed to use any boat before payment; the yearly fee will possibly be lowered still further, after the boats are entirely paid for, only enough money being required each year to pay running expenses. These are rent, taxes, and insurance on the house, a man's attendance, and repairs of the boats. Further a sinking fund is desirable, with which to buy new boats and oars...
...Longfellow's seventieth birthday was celebrated last week at Bowdoin College. After appropriate ceremonies, the meeting adjourned, to meet again on the eightieth anniversary of the poet...
...useful man to know - I do not think I need say any more on the score of acquaintances. Only keep this simple rule in mind: if you desire to be a man of fashion, do not neglect the Buoys and the Stickers of society wherever you happen to meet them...
DEAR JACK, - For several years there has been a good deal of talk about Harvard indifference, and I am very much inclined to think that there is some truth in the matter. At any rate, it has lately been my fortune to meet a number of gentlemen, more or less fresh from the classic shades of Cambridge, who appeared to be impressed with the idea that a display of interest in anything whatever was extremely inelegant. Their state of mind was not unlike that of the lady with whom I once acted in private theatricals, who thought that laughing...
...mean that you ought to forget that you are a gentleman. Although in the struggle of life you will have to meet again and again men who are not and who never can be what you are, you need not make yourself like them. If you remember one of my old rules, you will always be right. Never do a thing which you will be ashamed, if need be, to confess. If you are true to yourself, you will never know what shame means. Make up your mind to be something, whatever that something...