Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stepped up and gave him my ticket. A Sophomore called out aloud, "Freshman." A mucker whispered audibly, "Guess he stole it, so anxious to get rid of it." But I did not care what a Sophomore or a mucker thought. I was rather pleased that such characters had so poor an opinion of me. I was cordially received by the family where I called. I aired some of my newly acquired philosophical knowledge to two young ladies who were kind enough to listen to me. Thus my call was passing pleasantly and profitably, when, unfortunately, a cousin of the family...
...little money in pocket, and the fact ought always to be known. Don't talk about your money. Bragging of all sorts is very bad taste; and, besides, if you tell people that you are rich, it sounds as if you imagined that otherwise they would think you poor. Open extravagance is just as bad, - it is bragging in pantomime. If, now and then, when you are called upon to pay a bill you casually produce a fat roll of money, your object will be attained, and you will find this advice good not only through college, but through life...
...always insisted on paying the bill for the entire company. The result was that the decent half of the world took it into its head that he was a toady, and cut him altogether; while the other half sponged on him, as a matter of course; and the poor little man went through college spending half as much again as anybody else, and getting nothing in return for it but the contempt of everybody that saw him. So don't treat, and don't be treated. It don't pay to pay, for you will be called a toady...
...College show it. Witness the imbecilities of men brought up apparently on moral pap. Their gentle nature shudders at the thought of the disgrace of being watched by proctors, and yet does not hesitate to allow this watchfulness to justify them in a deception and a lie. The poor creatures know no better, for they have no sovereign standard of conduct within themselves. But imagine the discomfort the tender souls will meet with in the world, where the existence of policemen and penitentiaries will be a constant imputation on their virtue; and they will become miserable if indeed they...
...beauty, - but in vain; and my poor soul...