Word: sayes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Though many important points have been definitely settled, the results of the Convention, taken as a whole, are hardly satisfactory to many of the colleges. The old dispute as to who are eligible for University crews is not settled any more fairly than it was before, to say nothing of the time wasted upon the useless discussion of unimportant points...
...thought I feel, but cannot say...
...University Echo, Oakland, California, in the language of the honest miner, appears to have seen itself and gone four pages better; or, on second thoughts, suppose we say larger! It has a good deal of news, a superabundance of poetry, and one very entertaining article on "Roads and Railroads," some portions of which may be useful to our readers. "From numerous widely extended and highly scientific observations on the subject, we deduce the following laws...
...before a gaping world. Do not, however, set down the trait as a characteristic of him alone, or even, as you may quite willingly do, attribute it also to A, and admit that you have observed it in B; but consider honestly your own case as well. Do you say you don't believe any such thing, that there is nothing of the Jim-Fisk in you? Stop and think, - you, I mean! Ah yes, now you remember, when you were spending a few days last summer with your grandmother, (bless her dear old heart!) how, when she introduced...
...pass that a timid and sensitive man may well be restrained from an action, perfectly good and praiseworthy in itself, but still a little out of the usual run, from fear of the consequent roughing. At any rate, he is obliged to consider beforehand "what the fellows will say about it." Thus independence is placed at a discount, and we are too much tempted to do only what will please. Roughing a man on his personal and long-established habits never goes far towards removing them. It is only disagreeable and offensive to him. "A. C." mentions a loafer made...