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...call-boy at the Library is not sufficient...
said the cruel Sophomore, as he locked in the coal-closet the boy from the Secretary's office, and threw his last summons into the fire...
...languages, but we have none for them combined. These courses for honors in languages seem to aim chiefly at memorizing a vast number of words, rather than becoming familiar with the thoughts of the men who used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words of two hundred lines per day of the sublimest passages in Virgil, too much like what the poet Juvenal speaks of, who recited his verses standing on one foot. Such dexterity at the expense of profundity is of little...
...their attention has been previously engrossed in erecting pins on their neighbors, chairs and in surreptitiously eating molasses candy - all rise together, and, with much grace of manner, wish him "a good morning." When the gentleman leaves, the same performance is gone through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform movement have naturally felt some delicacy in having it noised abroad and made the subject of general comment until the success of their experiment was fully assured. Judging, however...
...answer this question in the affirmative without the slightest hesitation. The first indications were by no means promising, however, and the youthful Keltic mind did not seem to grasp the true spirit of the reform. Many strange inconsistencies were noticed at first. For instance, a small boy who saluted an elderly gentleman with much politeness saw nothing inappropriate, when beyond the reach of the gentleman's cane, in addressing him in terms more familiar than complimentary; a youth whose manners were very winning, and who had even attained some degree of perfection in tying a cravat, was in the constant...