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...chief amusements have been the theatre and the opera. Society, with its frivolous tendencies, has presented few charms to me. Partly from bashfulness, partly from misogynism, I have always taken special care to avoid all feminine society. But of Salvini and Booth, Januschausky and Margaret Mather, I think I should never tire; while I have been carried away with enthusiasm at the high notes of Sembrich...
...lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this is reduced to a minimum. The advice of an experienced friend is valuable, but a fixed purpose and the wisdom to avoid outside allurements is of still greater advantage. In applying for admittance it is by no means necessary to show an American degree, for no attention is paid to it, but the man who would enter without a pass from Washington, will have a hard time of it. Whether this...
...walk running the whole length of the yard. In places this walk is in worse condition than it would be without any flagging. In many cases the stones are out of the level or so worn that they hold the water in broad pools which it is impossible to avoid. The walk from University to the gate opposite the Post Office is in a similarly bad condition. These should receive immediate attention, the others should then be cared for as quickly as the college authorities can find the time and money to attend to the matter...
Would it not be possible to avoid holding examinations in such rooms as U. 2, where the desks are much too small for comfortable writing, especially when covered with the examination papers, a watch, and the usual number of pencils...
...student, or greatly disturb the ordinarily placid routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests strictly in accordance with the true spirit of genuine amateur sport...