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...Sophomore who wears ladies' size. The poor mat has been cursed every hour of the day and night, and now, at last, seeing that it still remained unannihilated, some one has employed violence and has doubtless returned it to its native dust-heap; or, better still, some match-boy, in sympathy with its kindred rags, has put the mat to a similar use with the old sheep-skin which Bryan O'Lynn appropriated, when, as the ballad runs, "he had no breeches to wear...
...much. I had been trying to reform, and in one evening I had been taken for a Freshman, a thief, an idiot, and twice for a drunkard. I rushed wildly around to Brighton St. As I turned the corner, I ran into a friend, who accosted me, "Hallo, old boy! I thought you had reformed." "Troja fuit," I merely replied, feeling a little ashamed of giving up so soon; but a minute later, when Carl's flaxen-haired Ganymede brought me a schooner, all shame had left me, and alone by myself I drank down a toast which my classmate...
...fact is, that neither of these views is right. Until this year you have been a boy. It was thought proper, and very rightly, too, that you should be launched into the world with a set of principles which would make you a valuable member of society; and these principles were instilled into you in a very strong and somewhat exaggerated from. But from this year you will become a man of the world. And one of the first lessons which you must learn is that a man of the world is never intolerant. To use an old definition...
...Hollo, old boy," broke in a familiar voice, "I've got back. Lost my latch-key and could n't get into the room. Thought I should probably find you here...
...this were a primary school, or the average age of the Seniors was five years instead of twenty-two, it would be unnecessary to say anything against the system. Perhaps one boy can learn the alphabet more quickly than another, but it is necessary to look after both to have them learn it at all. With Seniors the case is not precisely the same. Most of them are anxious and willing to learn, and the Faculty has unquestionably done much in the last few years to aid them. Some unnecessary restraints have been done away with and if others remain...