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...matters of study, if he is to be denied any voice in matters of religion? In other words, how is it possible to reconcile a system of study which assumes that a college student is a man with a system of discipline which assumes that he is a boy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

...Nearly two hundred years have passed since I was bell-ringer at this college, and many things have changed; but prayers, the evidence of my guilt, exist. I was almost a part of the college; I had taken my place when a boy and grown old in it. I loved the grounds, the building, most of all I loved my bell, and my greatest pleasure was in ringing it. Twice in the early morning, when the sun was rising, often through the day, and twice at evening, I delighted to send that pleasant sound out over the fields. When...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ALAS! POOR GHOST." | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...must go, it 's getting late, - good night, old boy, good night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHT-THOUGHTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...singing of the Class Song no one surely can offer a reasonable objection. The scramble for the flowers is boyish nonsense, it may be said, and unworthy the dignity of Seniors. To a certain extent this charge is true; but is it so unbecoming to play the boy for a few moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men? The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest of the day. The mock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AROUND THE TREE. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...friends, and betimes her truelove; but she is loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little woman is a keen judge of character though, and can detect a gentilhomme from an artiste as readily as silk from satin. For the weary cash-boy she reserves her surplus of good-nature, but to the flippant fop she is frigidly civil. She seems never to tire, and lets to-morrow take care of itself in a charmingly reckless way. Why worry about tomorrow? Goodness knows, she has enough to trouble her to-day. Why worry about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRISETTE. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

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