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...Corporation take up this matter now as they should have taken it up long ago, with no consideration of profit and loss, but with an eye only to the comfort and safety of those who are here under their care. For, in case of a large fire in the lower stories of these buildings, loss of life is certain to follow. In that event the members of the Corporation would be responsible for their criminal negligence...
...pitfalls for priest and people, yet little you care or reck...
...merry gambols on the green. And that thing, once frail but now a huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan as first broached had a pleasant sound...
...where home friends do not happen to be accessible, is very apt to pass almost all his time with men. And the result is that a college education, which ought to make finished gentlemen, oftener succeeds in roughening than in polishing the diamonds which are confided to its care. I remember that during my Junior year I went to one or two of the assemblies as they called the parties which the students managed, and my observations at once amused and annoyed me. A number of very good fellows were there who had confined their social experiences to college societies...
...Take care not to live with men alone. Choose your friends with care; i. e. know people who will be of use to you, and try to make them think that you are of use to them. But don't let your snobbishness take the form of boasting of your own rank. If you are a gentleman, the whole world can see it; and if you are not, you had better not call attention to the fact. We are all snobs, you know. But our snobbishness differs as much as do our noses. The peculiar form of snobbishness which...