Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...means an easy thing to sit naturally and becomingly for one's likeness. When the photographer has arranged you to his satisfaction, and your head is pushed up against the iron rest, and you are trying to look interested in a nail on the wall, when all the while you feel as constrained as possible, the word is uttered and the monster eye is about to glare; and just then, of a sudden, you wonder if you are opening your eyes wide enough. Every one likes to have justice done to his eyes, and so you lift your eyelids...
...amusement. To be sure, as I remember them, they are not very amusing; but, at the same time, most of your friends will join them, and if you do not, you will feel as if you were out of the world, - which is not at all the same thing as feeling as if you were in heaven. In my time these societies were great political powers. When any class elections came, they would divide the various offices between themselves, and walk off with them, regardless of opposition. This fact gave them a reason for existence which made them, though they...
...letter is getting long, and I must hurry on. Clubs are - clubs; join one, if you can get in, but do not make a home of it. It is very jolly to have a place to lounge in, and all that sort of thing. The great objection to it is that all who have the entree are tempted to become professional loungers, - a class of people, as I have often told you, who are not appreciated upon this side of the Atlantic. Tant pis pour nous...
...sure that the members are not the deep-dyed villains which their enemies would have us to believe. But, at the same time, their achievements are not of a creditable sort. Bonfires, explosions, amateur burglary of private as well as of public property, and all that sort of thing, are not feats which I should call characteristic of gentlemen. To be sure, in nine cases out of ten this behavior is due to mere thoughtlessness, and I do not doubt that many a good fellow - in every sense of the word - has taken part in it. But I am sure...
This is the old worn-out chord which twanged last year to the tune of "Harvard Indifference," but the fact is, that indifference is the one thing here which "pays." A premium is put on loafing, for the loafers have the easiest time and no one thinks the less of them. Exertion is not only not encouraged, but it is scorned. In England they say that to be anything at the university, a man must do well one of the three R's, - Read, Ride, or Row. There, the man who reads may become the Senior Wrangler, or take...