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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...success." Again it is the University which points out to you the difference between quality and quantity of approval; which tells you to have a calm confidence and buoyant enthusiasm and to do your duty for duty's sake. Remember that some of our noblest spirits are not those whose names are on every tongue, but those who have faithfully gone through life's work and passed into eternal life as "a living stone in that living temple of humanity to help to build up man unto the glorious ideal which God has placed before him." Such a career...
...training which fits them for professional work has led to demands upon it which can only be met by certain additions to the teaching force. The money which may be given for this fund will be altogether devoted to the payment of three of four assistants and instructors, whose services will greatly extend the range and value of the instruction...
...verse of the number, "Dandelions" is a short poem, delicate in fancy and excellent in execution-"A Toast to Clarinda," a rhymed toast with more or less swing-and "A Poor Scholar" (a trifle more ambitious than the other two), a poem whose theme is Love, prettily conceived and well-written...
...rather a peculiar nature. After a careful perusal, we should call it a sketch with most (but not all) of the characteristics of a story; a sketch, in which there are delineations of three distinct characters,- one Horace Tennant, a Harvard graduate, cultivated and cynical, the well-springs of whose enthusiasm are not, however, entirely dried up, returning to his Texas home after an absence of four years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments of cultivation, and a predilection for slang and amorous raillery (a girl whose type is familiar...
...entirely different elements, working, too, from widely different motives, have been planning to find a way out of this difficulty. The one element is composed of the foreign students themselves, in whose midst are still fresh all the feelings of loneliness and "lostness" that depressed them as they were trying to find catalogues, programs of courses, lecture rooms, university offices, professors, and information about the kind, quality, and amount of work, for the first time in this large and unfriendly city. These students wish at least to do something to make the way easier for those who may come after...