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...each district has its dialects, local feeling, etc. This commingling of young men fosters and encourages a national and patriotic feeling. The law of the army compels the soldiers to attend night schools and consequently at the expiration of their term of service the young men return no longer rude and illiterate to their native villages. The money paid out for equipments is paid to Italian workmen for Italian labor and nearly all of it remains in Italy...
...about the disagreeable noises that occur near the close of the recitations it may be well to call attention to those that occur just after their beginning. Tardy men frequently make a great deal of noise on entering and passing to their seats. In fact the exceptions to this rude habit are so rare in some classes that a stranger might easily suppose that Harvard men had set their own standard of conduct on this point. It is hardly necessary to say more by way of comment, than that besides its ungentlemanly character, this practice is decidedly annoying to students...
...sometimes contain the pith of the lecture. It is not only boyish, but inconsiderate and ill-bred to prevent men who have gone to the lecture for the purpose of hearing it from profiting by those last few minutes. But more than this; it is in the highest degree rude and ungentlemanly to interrupt the instructor in any way while he is speaking. This is the A B C of manners and it would seem hardly necessary to call any man's attention to it. It is noticeable that this practice is in great part confined to those large courses...
...occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard...
...whole experiment is a novel, almost a startling one. What is to be the true result? The answer may perhaps be found in the words of a rude but hard-headed friend who said to me. "Under the present system, I shall expect a graduate of Harvard to be either a d - fool or a genius...