Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Neither of these classes have any time to spare to think of their behavior. As long as they do nothing downright indecent they are contented; and I am sorry to say that the world is very apt to be contented too. At the same time, as somebody or other said, there was never a spot on earth so wicked that a man could not live a good life there if he wanted to; and there never was a place where manners were so horribly bad that a man who chose to be well-bred could-not succeed. I have seen...
...always more or less coarse. If you pass your time for a month or two in their company, and in their company alone, you will be amazed at your own roughness, to say the least, when you mingle once more with the fairer portion of humanity. A man at college, where home and where home friends do not happen to be accessible, is very apt to pass almost all his time with men. And the result is that a college education, which ought to make finished gentlemen, oftener succeeds in roughening than in polishing the diamonds which are confided...
...course you know, during your first year or two at college, you cannot expect to mingle with the gay world as if you were a grown man. Even the delightful assemblies of which I spoke are, or used to be, closed to you. At the same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older...
Good society is something like heaven; its existence is often denied by those who have no hope of getting in. But at the same time it undoubtedly exists, and exercises an influence which is none the less for being unseen. And the more you have of it, the better for you it will be. I find that I am becoming horribly snobbish, so I shall hasten to close my letter. Always behave like a gentleman. If you want to do an impudent thing, do it in such a way that nobody will know that it is impudent till he stops...
...this time of year, when the probabilities for the day are falling temperature, snow, and hour-examinations, I am much struck with the altered demeanor of my classmates (I am in the latter half of my course, but will not commit myself so far as to say that I am a Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing...