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...Bible clerks, who enjoy certain scholarships, and were formerly required to attend all chapel services, and perform the same duties that are performed by our monitors...
Turning from our American institutions of learning, where there exists a recognized equality among students, to English universities, we find there great class distinction. The under-graduates of the University of Oxford are divided into six distinct classes, distinguished from one another, not only by certain privileges, but even by their college dress. The following are these classes...
...Noble men, being peers in their own right, who enjoy certain privileges and exemptions not accorded to others, in the choice of rooms, paving higher fees, doing less work, and attending fewer lectures. They have two kinds of dress; the first, which is worn on public occasions, is a gown of purple damask silk, richly ornamented with gold lace. The second is a black silk gown, with full sleeves. This is worn as an "every day" dress. With both these is worn the regulation "mortarboard" of black velvet, with gold tassel...
...have met with. It is refreshing-to the reader (to him especially who aims at becoming a "full man," as Bacon puts it,) to find here and there the very brilliant remarks of a very bril-dull man; comments on the author's style, questions and expressed doubts on certain passages, very wonderful and skilful corrections, humorous passages explained, jokes and puns clarified, and bits of quite original humor-of the very best sort, of course. Indeed, it is to be regretted that more men do not practice this note-making. When men read, they should put down their thoughts...
...nature of our relations to all things, then any change in our idea of these relations will change our idea of right and wrong. In this way fatalism may have an influence on conduct such as is exercised by all religious and philosophical beliefs. It may sanction certain acts and practices and condemn others; it may encourage certain states of mind. Thus we can conceive that if all the world turned fatalist, we might see our good people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less of what...