Word: also
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...sells Bibles. Let no one infer that I think that students should not give in charity. Without doubt they might make the best possible use of some of their spare pocket-money by relieving real distress. But these people who haunt our rooms not only are a nuisance, but also prevent all true charity by offering such worthless objects...
...took their seats. The committee had provided for what they considered an extraordinary number of plates; but fifteen or twenty more names having been handed in at the last moment, it became unfortunately necessary to provide for them in an adjoining room. These, however, later in the evening, were also accommodated in the larger room, and nothing remained to mar the complete enjoyment of the occasion...
Complaints are also made of the disappearance of back numbers of papers and magazines, taken, perhaps, by some thoughtless persons. This practice causes great annoyance to the members of the Association, and it is sincerely to be hoped that hereafter it will be discontinued...
...towns, and perhaps would be able to judge without experience. But starting from this place, the student of Harvard finds that the consideration which he receives increases in proportion to the number of miles which separate him from his point of departure; and, with this increase of consideration, he also observes that there springs up an exaggerated notion of the life he leads at college...
...desirous or able to spend the three or four millions required annually to support the spread-eagle style on such a scale before a gaping world. Do not, however, set down the trait as a characteristic of him alone, or even, as you may quite willingly do, attribute it also to A, and admit that you have observed it in B; but consider honestly your own case as well. Do you say you don't believe any such thing, that there is nothing of the Jim-Fisk in you? Stop and think, - you, I mean! Ah yes, now you remember...