Word: oldes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...late meeting of the Company a committee was appointed to negotiate with the Western Union Company concerning a line between Old Cambridge and Boston. The success of this negotiation must be obvious to all who have recently been within the post-office in Harvard Square...
...surprising how little Freshman classes vary from one year to another. Always, taken as a whole, the same despised and timorous race, the additional step of classification shows that the same old percentages likewise recur, A' and B' stepping into the relative places of A and B with the greatest regularity. Levison I' Evy succeeds to the same seat at the same "swell" table which Montairon Von Aaron, the now popular Sophomore, occupied last year; smiles as sweetly, shakes as many hands, pays the same delicate attention to influential upper-class men, and, in general, follows the lead...
...transplanted from easy-going boyhood, with loving hands ever ready to guard you from the first approach of trouble or temptation, to a station imposing upon you the responsibilities of manhood, without experience or preparation. Can it justly be a matter of surprise that at your annual visits home old friends will find you changed? Not necessarily gone to the bad, of course, but with a good many angularities of character worn down by constant attrition, and a number of lines, which were wont to be sharply drawn, now quite obliterated. Very likely a few failures to attain the rank...
...upon many subjects is one of the earliest symptoms of Sir Galahad's fall. So many of his boyish beliefs in things both natural and spiritual have to be abandoned as no longer tenable in the clear light of reason, that our knight gets very dainty about defending anything old at all. The argument of a laugh is not easily answerable in college society. It is, moreover, easier to profess pity for blind bigotry than to reason honestly. And students are proverbially lazy...
...believe that any other college offers greater security against the evils I have mentioned. And for this it is not the government of our colleges which is mainly responsible. Could the thousand young men now studying at Cambridge be placed in business or other occupation, apart from old friends and old restrictions, which it would be ridiculous for a parietal committee to adopt, no better results could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair...