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...example of the inverted logic that stamps our campus thought. In reality, college should serve us; it should be an instrument in our lives, we should be its masters and the governors of its destiny. But instead we have become the slaves of the machine; we run hither and thither in agony of futile haste; we compete where no end is served and no result achieved; we sweat over unloved tasks and neglect the true business of life; we erect and execute useless schemes, multiplying the worries of life, cluttering our days with rubbish, blasting Leisure and wasting our strength...
...short instead of learning to depend on himself, on his books and his friends for diversion, he goes to the theatre or a dance; all because there are subways to carry him thither, and because those same subways have brought people out to him and turned the little village into a large city which has swept around the old Yard and gone beyond...
...question of intersectional games is a matter of opinion. "The trouble comes when they are overdone". Absolutely correct, But, as we have frequently remarked before, the danger of their being over done is real. And rather than have the Harvard football team sent hither and thither to help "destroy the ideas of Harvard snobs and dudes", we would limit intersectional contests more than they are limited...
...while the train, with Washington D. Vanderlip on board, got to Moscow. The train got to Moscow just on the minute, but six days late. Our hero stretched his weary limbs and asked which was the way to the munificent palace of the Kremlin where the concessions were. Thither he proceeded by hiring two cabs, one for himself and one to carry the paper rubles to pay for the first cab. Soon he got to the munificent palace of the Kremlin where the concessions were and was introduced to Mr. Lenine, who asked him please to speak loudly...
Howells: Hither and Thither in Germany...