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...Jimmie always took Apollinaris Water in the morning. Charlie preferred a "bracer." Jimmie believed in the proverb, "Spare the rod and spoil the child;" Charlie didn't. Jimmie thought it the best policy always to borrow, never to lend; so did Charlie. To sum up, their characters were similar in many respects and very different in others; it has often fitly been said of them that they were "clinky and didn't congeal...
...other spoil she made that...
...students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading that has tended this year to spoil the pleasure, even if it could not lessen the profit, of Mr. Child's admirable instructions in Shakespeare...
...only disgraceful, but disastrous. When the men who worked hard all last winter, and, in tough struggles, won glory for us all, see their efforts now apparently uncared for and unappreciated, they feel discouraged. It is taking all the spirit out of their work, and threatening to spoil Harvard's chances for next year. What the men on the crew and on the nine need is that encouragement which would be given them by a manifestation of personal interest and pride in what they are doing, - not mere passing interest, dying out with the day of their victory, but permanent...
...GOOD GRACIOUS, chum! what shall I write about?" "Don't know, and don't care; it's sure to be stupid, anyhow, so don't spoil a good subject." "I guess I'll write on 'English and American Society.'" "What!!! Have n't you read the Advocate, on the 'limits of a college paper'? Don't you know that 'our paper should be filled exclusively with articles that have a connection with the college, - with the life here, the studies, the events of interest, that occur every day'?" "What these events of interest that happen every day may be, chum...