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...cultivates studious habits, the more he can understand situations that, although irksome, may yet be necessary and unavoidable? Many college educated men take up mercantile careers and are disgusted to find that they are expected to do work only fit for boys of fourteen or fifteen years of age, and unfortunately they show their disgust by assuming airs superior to their situations, by leaving before they have given business a fair trial, and by condemning as impossible careers that are simply misunderstood by their inexperienced and unsettled minds. Naturally, practical business men of a limited education, but early business training...
...once having grasped a subject tenacious of it. Place against these qualities the mind of the boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, and there can be no comparison made. The contrast is too startling and decisive. The one disadvantage of a college man entering business is, that his age is too advanced by the time he leaves college; but this is a drawback that can be overcome, provided the man is sensible enough to accept petty duties at two and twenty, and not be above learning the rudimentary duties of business life. The failure of so many college educated...
This is the scientific age; everything is now governed by rule, everything is bound by precision. And in the strides that the world has made during the past century, it is strange to see how our athletics have evolved from a sort of chaos into sharply defined, well regulated sciences, requiring the action of mind as well as of body to perfect them...
...figure in our streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that...
...fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Boswell's fancy was fixed on love during the whole twelve-month. His letters, unfortunately, do not begin until he is twenty, so that we are precluded from any view of his real life until that time; but after that age, we can trace, with a good deal of accuracy, the course of his thoughts. In the very first letter we plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs, but it is so characteristically told that I quote the letter...