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Human life is all a movement: it ought to be a forward movement. One part of it is as real as another. It is too common to consider college life simply as a mimic life intended to prepare men for realities which come later. Men who have graduated do not find their aims more worthy, nor their struggle more serious than those they had at college. Yet the feeling that education all comes before life begins makes it easier for some men to be tempted to waste the valuable present. A generation ago most of the preaching from the pulpit...
...which speaks mainly on the subject, the two members of the university will surely be Conservative. Nevertheless, a rather amusing fight is going on. The various debating societies are now offering resolutions in support of Lord Salisbury's ministry, and the undergraduate politicians are exercising their oratorical powers in mimic Parliamentary contests. One man, who signs himself "Conservative," writes in the Review a vigorous appeal to all holders of sound political opinions to try to influence by direct arguments the wayward followers of the Liberal ministry. He urges the "extreme importance of doing everything in their power to further...
There is no denying that a certain set of young Americans, more particularly in New York and in Boston, affect the Englishman and ape all his affectations. They mimic every English trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever...
...would n't, and he has never broken his word." Dick's face turned very red. "But he does n't like to offend his friends at college by not appearing to join with them, so he gets out of it in this way: he is a very good mimic, and can pretend to be intoxicated so that one could hardly tell he was not so. That's the way he managed at a club dinner a little while ago." We exchanged glances, for we remembered having had to carry him home that night. But his mother went...
...prates with mimic...