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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prurience which some men exhibit in seeking social honors is simply ludicious, while others are just as backward and slow to make acquaintances. Some of us seem to hold up before us as the highest prize of college life admission to some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from the club side. There are other social relations beyond those of the societies which are well worth the student's time. Close societies will always foster cliques, and cliques cannot but deteriorate the general good-fellowship of a class. Every new member...
Authors are not often agreeably disappointed in the amounts which they receive from editors or publishers. The New York Tribune, however, notes an exception in the case of Mr. Seelye, president of Amherst college, if the following anecdote which it relates concerning him be true - "President Seelye, of Amherst College, recently received from the North American Review, in payment for an article, a check which rather staggered him by its munificence. He told one of his classes that his labor had been so small and the recompense was so large that he had concluded to make a present...
...paper that is "little, but oh my!" and here one that is "decidedly fresh," and here a third that "is a credit to the institution which it represents. Such a paper cannot fail to arouse an interest outside its own peculiar sphere. We hope to see you often...
This effect can never be obtained from the printed works of an author, familiarity with which often blunts our perception in their most important parts, in reviews for examination. The attention is more painful than pleasant in this kind of "grinding," - while our notes are not only reminders, as remarked above, but statements put in the best shape for our individual minds. For these reasons "printed notes," etc. never give the same results as those of the student himself, and are to be reprehended inasmuch as they offer a loop-hole for the man who is too lazy to take...
...pessimist simply believes that more misery than happiness exists in the world. The optimist holds the opposite. Everyone grants that an optimist who writes pessimistically should be condemned for insincerity. But few seem to realize that if a man's most sober and honest thought is pessimistic, as it often is, he would do wrong to write optimistically. Both argue that you must shape your course according to the weightiest facts of existence; one holds that misery is the great fact of life; the other, that happiness is. Each is in duty bound steadfastly to set forth his side...