Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What was said in the first part of this letter about the dulness of Hanover at this time should be construed as meaning socially, and in no wise affecting the beauty of the place. For, although it has a much more splendid beauty in the summer, yet even in the middle of the winter it has a cold, still charm that endears it very much to the student of a pedestrian turn of mind, who starts off early in the morning, if possible, and tramps all over the country, finding substantial support in the good old cider and cold meals...
...feeling of America and that of other countries. Here every man, no matter how poor, looks upon himself as having equal chances with his neighbor for social position or political honor. This is doubly impressed upon his mind by his life in public schools, and finally becomes a very part of himself. He is taught to believe that the only requisite to success is education, and that in this country there is no such thing as being to the manner born. This feeling of personal independence is one of the most marked distinctions of the American mind, and its absence...
...monetary conference will probably not assemble. France is unwilling to re-convene the conference on April 1 on account of her desire to avoid another failure in her efforts to secure uniformity of views on the part of the powers...
Very few of the business enterprises of undergraduates have ever yet made much of a success financially. Cases that seem to be exceptions to this statement have succeeded always for some exceptional reason; either because of extraordinary enterprise on the part of their projectors, or for outside support, or because of the friendly interest of associates, a few have prospered, and although it must be confessed that this lamentable fact is often due to the inertness and indifference of those who should be chiefly interested and would be most benefitted by student enterprises, yet it is unfair...
Vennor predicts tempestuous weather for the latter part of this week...