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...professional class - that is, of the best society throughout Germany. In other words, it is "the thing" to be poor, and live as if you were poor, in Germany. The military and civil officers who form the flower of German society are poorly paid, and, not only make no attempt at display, but look on display or luxury as vulgar. They get the consideration which they enjoy, not from their means, but from their position. The possession or acquisition of money is, therefore, not a sign of social success. A man's wife and children are not troubled...
...supporting the Co-operative's interests for members to make purchases there for their friends outside the society, neither is it honorable. The management show their fidelity to the society at large by preventing this practice as much as possible, and members ought not be so thoughtless as to attempt...
...matter of curiosity to see how immediate has been the effect of the measures adopted by the Tennis Association to abolish the "shacker" nuisance. It is true that there has been no attempt to make and enforce any rule. The simple request that a certain regulated scale of fees be adopted, and that no boys be employed except when found at certain specified stations, seems to have had the desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have...
...controversy over this matter has been somewhat excited, but there has at no time been any other reason given for conferring the degree than that it is usual to do so, whoever might be the governor. Now that the question has been decided, it may be expected that an attempt will be made to create sympathy for the governor as having been slighted, and it will be asserted that the college has set itself up above the wisdom of the people. It will be used as an argument to favor the governor's reelection and to injure the college...
...Dominion of Canada. Although she had received her instruction in a mixed class of both sexes, there had never existed the slightest difficulty in the class owing to her presence there. Indeed she had endeared herself to the students to such an extent that on one occasion, when an attempt had been made to create some disturbance, the entire class had come forward in her defence, and championed her cause so successfully that the interference of the faculty had not been at all necessary in that behalf...