Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE little mistake made by the gentleman who wandered into the Yard last week, and inquired the names of "all these hotels," gives a very good idea of the knowledge that many people have of college life.
The student, on the other hand, is almost as ignorant of what is happening in the world around him, as outsiders are of life at college.
It is surprising that we are so separate from society, so little affected by the bustle and perplexities of those about us.
While other young men are eager to acquire a sufficient knowledge of trade to allow them to assume a business air and talk volubly of the rise and fall of stocks, the average collegiate is gloriously indifferent to it. Such topics awaken no interest in his breast. It makes no...
However pleasant it may be for us thus to be indifferent to such things, we should still do well to remember that this will not last long, and that if, on leaving college to really begin life, we are inexperienced and unskilled in the transactions of every-day life, we...