Word: therings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"The moral results of this scheme were excellent, but yet the contribution-box was never empty; and I put in the most money, for the provocations to profanity which an ingenious chum can invent are infinite. But although there was always some money in the box, it seemed to me...
In college the most careful and painstaking students receive the highest percentage of marks; but they are not brilliant men, nor do their fellows always admit that they are the best scholars. Thus, certain affable, graceful, and politic men, able in popular amusements, are admitted into clubs and societies to...
There are various avenues to college popularity: some wish to be popular with a few, and therefore seek by means of their money to make friends with the conspicuous members of prominent societies; some try for it by prowess in boating or at ball, and some by generous contributions to...
And hold her happier there;
The present Sophomore class, on undertaking the conduct of the Institute, felt that although much good work had been done for it by the classes immediately preceding, and although it had in some respects been well maintained, yet that there existed a very general lack of interest in its literary...