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That this is in a measure true can hardly be denied. A man of taste and fortune cannot busy himself much with the affairs of the counting-house without developing the prosaic and matter-of-fact side of his character to a disproportionate extent, and meeting on terms, perforce equal, hundreds of people whom his self-respect and pride will permit him to regard with nothing but contempt. The degradation involved in a peaceful struggle for dollars and cents with your fellow-man is, however, hardly equal to the humiliation of a life-long squabble with your butcher and your...
...been subjected to any ill treatment whatever; and an intimate acquaintance with the principles of the Sophomores justifies the statement that the leading men of the class are as thoroughly opposed to such proceedings as the Freshmen themselves could possibly be. We feel sure, then, that we shall meet with the approval of all concerned in the matter, when we solicit from any Freshman who has been forced to submit to any indignity whatever a full account of the whole affair, which we engage to publish as soon as its truth is satisfactorily proved...
After some proficiency had been acquired in these pursuits by our students they could challenge other colleges, and then perhaps we might have the good-fortune to meet with the students of the University of Vermont, who, being accomplished in the science of agriculture, would undoubtedly accept an invitation to such contests, provided that there were no gamblers or blacklegs to mar the rural simplicity of the occasion. What a proud day it would be for old Harvard to witness her sons manfully endeavoring either to outplough and outhoe their competitors, or to dig ditches of given lengths against time...
ATHENAEUM.THE Everett Athenaeum supper being at Parker's, of course, warranted the excellence of what to some is not the least enjoyable part of the last meetings of our Sophomore societies. As was remarked by the speakers of the evening, it was but fit that, after a year's toil in the hardest working literary society in College, they should meet the last time convivially...
There have been several pleasant articles in the Crimson this year in regard to persons and places of interest that the students have found in their journeyings, and I would like to propose that those of us who meet with any such in the coming vacation "make a note o' 't," as possibly worthy of a college paper article next year...