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...well-to-do student living in comfortable rooms can in case of illness summon such medical adviser as he may select and procure a trained nurse, if such nursing is needed; but it does not at all follow that he would not be better off in a well-equipped college house where especial provision is made for the comfort and welfare of the sick, and where he can equally have his own medical adviser and a special nurse as well if required, paying, in addition to the fees of the physician and the nurse, as he would pay them...
...such cases. This committee consists of six members, chosen from the student body, and it has power to deal with all cases involving violations of the system. The presidents of the four classes and one senior and one junior make up the committee. This committee has the power to summon the accused persons and witnesses, and to conduct formal investigations, and, in cases of conviction, to determine the punishment. In case of conviction of a member of the senior, junior, or sophomore class, the penalty is a recommendation to the Faculty of his separation from college, with the addition...
...speaks to us through the senses when compared with that vast realm of the mind which is peopled by memory and imagination, and with such shining inhabitants! These walls, these faces, what are they in comparison with the countless images, the innumerable population which every one of us can summon up to the tiny show-box of the brain, in material breadth scarce a span, yet infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view...
...forget the outward things called schools and colleges and summon up human beings...
...routine is a species of amusement furnished by the college for their particular enjoyment. The sooner they get this idea out of their heads the better will be their chances in the race next June. Rowing is no child's play; it requires all the assiduity a man can summon. Some things he must learn to do by instinct, one of them is keeping time...