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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The second, and by far stronger, reason why people overestimate the jollity and dash of Cambridge life, is the fact that students themselves often indulge in descriptions of such marvellous adventures of the Freshman and Sophomore years that the credulous are struck with admiration and the timid with fear. An...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE REPUTATION. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

At present the only places where degrees can be got in Ireland are the Queen's University and Trinity College, Dublin. In neither of them is there now any requirement which students must fulfil in order to be matriculated, though at Trinity there used to be a law that only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

This man is held up to us as one influenced to a remarkable extent by the famoe sacra fames. Notoriety he thirsted for, and notoriety he certainly gained. Without doubt, he is the shining example of that trait so graphically expressed in the vulgate by the term "cutting a dash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

Look at that "dig," whom you have known, ever since you entered college, as the most retiring, modest fellow imaginable. Yet he goes away into some country place, and, as he gets out of his old ruts and among people where his superiority is in some respects tacitly acknowledged, you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

But let him that is without the same sin among you cast the first stone.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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