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...method of collecting these daily charges will be as follows: Five, ten, fifteen and twenty cent checks will be placed at Bartlett's, the Co-operative store, etc., and can be bought in any number. They can also be purchased of the boy on the grounds. And it shall be the duty of this boy to collect these tickets and the necessary amount of charges from each man, shortly after he begins play for the day. This shall be done, not by the players giving the tickets to the boy himself, but by dropping them into a box with which...
...Seelye has never, we believe, exercised this right, and so the Senate's decrees have been final. The jurisdiction of the Senate extends over matters of discipline, which would not probably come within the province of our conference committee. Wherever among students, there is a tendency to carry school-boy tricks and manners into college, a trial of the delinquents by their fellow students has always been found very beneficial, and the Amherst experiment has proved most successful in this respect...
...most authors he is desirous of winning the respect; but the great mass of men, 'the unknown public,' who have not his fame or wealth, he loathes and spurns from his side. He remembers having heard of a book known as the Bible, once when he was a boy, and he has an edition of this work in his library; it is preserved on account of its antiquity. He has never heard of the Christ, or, at least, he regards him as below his notice. He is a Hedonist. His aim is to live at all odds a happy life...
During the two or three years before his entrance to college, it is true, the boy feels some dim forebodings of trouble ahead; but a decisive step to meet it is seldom taken. Human nature is weak, and the issue is generally avoided, while the anxious son consoles himself with the thought that years may bring wisdom to the dear parents...
...consider a single case; suppose a student, while a mere boy, has consented to take his father in with him to the paternal business, but that the wisdom which comes with long continued meditation shows him his mistake. He has learned the fallacy of his early reasoning. The object of life is pleasure and self-improvement. Money is but a means. The money getter makes it and end. Therefore he, the student, will not go into business, but travel, perhaps write a little, develop naturally as a flower, and live the only life possible for a rational graduate...