Word: readings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HAVE read with great pleasure the article by Mr. Crowninshield, and your remarks thereon, in the last issue of the Crimson, and, encouraged by the desire you express to hear from graduates concerning boating matters, I send you what follows...
...good deal of that sort of thing, and I was never sorry for it. In case you should like to follow in my footsteps, I will give you one or two examples, by way of ending my letter. And as special examples are always more amusing, both to read and to write, than generalities, however glittering, I will stick to the theatre and to burlesque...
...were most cordially reprehended, and that, to cover up the defeat if possible, it was at once resolved to bring into requisition the regulation Harvard tactics of bluster and complaint. . . . . We have the word of four of the most prominent of Harvard's players, that they had not even read over the Rugby Union rules under which the game was conducted. It was patent to any unbiassed spectator that Harvard was governed in the main by custom, and that her so-called surprise at Yale's method of playing was the result of ignorance on her own part...
...which seemed likely to edify my instructor, and so, although not knowing what the "Late Discussion" was about, I decided to take the second alternative. But as I ground up on the subject, I became deeply interested in it, - a thing which had never happened before. As I only read the Advocate articles, I became dreadfully alarmed about the state of affairs existing here. The subject weighed on my mind even after the theme was handed in. I took a personal view of it too, and one day I found myself soliloquizing about as follows: "Yes; I am pretty...
That afternoon I divided between Kant and Hegel. I cannot say that I enjoyed or even understood a word I read, but I felt that I was doing my duty, and so was happy. When evening came I was too tired to continue my reading, and, being afraid some friend would happen around and suggest a game of billiards or cards, I hurried away to make a call in town, thinking that I might be aided in my reform by the elevating influence of society. The conductor on the car passed me by in collecting the fares. Usually I could...