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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There are many things in the world with which one can find fault, and he who finds fault with everything may be justly considered a pessimist. It is far from the truth that I consider the communication column of the CRIMSON a pessimist's column, but still there seems to be no other outlet for pent-up feelings over things with which one has become disgusted. The object of my fault-finding may seem small to many, but I feet sure that if it is remedied many will rejoice with me. I refer to the hot water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/15/1886 | See Source »

...enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication of energies is responsible. He cannot claim consideration as a pessimist, for a pessimist (according to the latest receipt) must be sadly cheerful, while he makes a very ordinary and unpoetic kind of a person out of himself by his querulous ways. Now for the coroner. He is sometimes a freshman, sometimes a grind, and always a crank. After a three hours' trial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1886 | See Source »

Although the question of pessimism has already been covered, yet it may not be out of place to make a special application of the principle of sincerity to the subject. The idea has in some way gotten abroad that a pessimist is a child of the devil, with notions accordingly diabolical. Yet the fact is that the 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scope of College Journalism. | 1/13/1886 | See Source »

...attentive listening I found this to be the lamentation of a select body of young men (being all spoiled children, they call themselves the S. Poils Society) over the shortcomings of their fellow-men (cribbing, cutting, etc.). This was getting too depressing to stand. I was not a pessimist then, and had no sympathy with this idea of total degeneration. I endeavored to cheer up by warbling "Landlord, fill the flowing bowl," but, as I don't sing, the result was n't encouraging. Without a word of remonstrance I left the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIBULATIONS. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

From 1851 to 1874 Harvard graduated fifty-nine men who have become professors in this and other colleges. Probably still further investigation would bring to light other facts proving more strongly that Harvard degeneracy is only the croak of a pessimist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD GRADUATES. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »

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