Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Never spend a cent that does n't show. Avoid tete-a-tete dinners, and expensive cigars, and all that sort of thing. Most people spend so much more than appears at first sight, that if you make what you pay out tell, you will get the credit of being vastly richer than you are. And keep your bills paid up. It is always easier to settle a small account than a large one, and if you pay your bills promptly you will not be so apt to have too much pocket-money, - which tempts a man to spend money...
...proper management of his pocket. Disagree as much as you please in thought, but listen with equal amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same thing. All I tell you to do is to listen amiably to other men's nonsense, and to keep your own counsel. Remember to be enough of the man of the world never to be surprised at any theory that you may hear advanced, however absurd it may be. And remember...
...true, shows a decidedly disgraceful state of affairs. We shall not moralize upon the terrible enormity of indulging in "cane rushes." This amusement was never popular in Cambridge, and we cannot judge of the pleasure to be derived from it. But the breaking of pledges is a thing not to be treated lightly; it shows a lack of the commonest sense of honor which throws into the shade a disregard of finer points. The long list of colleges at which hazing has caused trouble this fall excuses us for thanking heaven that we are not as others...
...instructors, almost without exception, have favored us during the past week with preliminary remarks." We have been told that this or that elective is not for loafers; that whoever elects this course for a "soft thing" will find himself deceived; that this University has had "enough of culture and too much"; and from another source, that culture is the aim of a University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands...
CLASS-DAY coming once again brings up memories of all other Class-Days, and affords us an excellent opportunity for trite remarks. But why should we pretend that we gave information or that we said a brilliant thing, by proclaiming that another class was about to leave these "classic shades"; that their virtues were manifold and their faults but specks? Certainly this is true, for it has all been said, over and over again, of preceding classes. We will therefore not moralize upon either the class or the day, but we will earnestly hope and devotedly pray that...