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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...rising one morning I discovered that a letter had been pushed under my door. I hastened to it, picked it up, and quickly tore it open; the first line commenced "Dear Will." I hesitated, read three or four more lines, and became sensible of some mistake. I looked at the envelope; it bore the name of my friend with the number of my room. Was it possible? It was; after this his letters came regularly to my room...
Being under the necessity of purchasing some coal one day, I chanced to ask him, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in my voice, how much coal he had used this winter. He replied, "I have only about half a ton left." Some time after I happened to see one of those little bills with which we are all more or less acquainted; from this I learned that he was indebted to a coal-merchant for just the above-mentioned amount, purchased at the beginning of the year. I then fully understood the import of his answer. He evinced...
Having been invited to write something for a college paper, I complied with the request and sat down one day to gather a few scattered thoughts. With his usual inquisitiveness he asked me what I was doing. I answered "Writing." He wished to know "about what." I replied, "Loafers," and asked him if he did n't think they were a nuisance. He assented, and remarked that it was surprising how we agreed in most of our opinions. I said no more. Coming home rather late one evening, I was astonished to find my bed occupied. At first...
...part they wish to play. Few there be to whom this question, squarely faced, does not afford ample scope for profitable reflections on the past and good resolutions for the future. We have two extremes in college to whom a consideration of this subject would be highly advantageous, - the one easily recognizable, and in fact the ordinary object of moral disquisitions; but I would refer more particularly to the other, namely, to men who sometimes take the highest college honors. Thanks to the system of instruction now practised in the college, a man may pass through his entire course, under...
...this hold true in matter of studies, but also in our intercourse with men; for here lies a great field for education. How much valuable acquaintance do we lose by the restrictions of class and clique feeling! That this has in a measure been broken down of late is one of the most assuring signs of the future, and it is to be hoped that the absurdity and childishness of such distinctions will be erelong generally admitted...