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...hope that they will not - I must beg of you to politely decline them. They can't help you, and they may hurt you; for membership involves a habit of constant prevarication, which is anything but salutary in its effects. At the same time these secret organizations have a certain amount of power; and as long as they do not interfere with you, you had better not interfere with them, - technical interference being the public mention of their existence. If they openly offend you, of course you must not calmly submit; but my experience of them is that they...
...interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty have been enumerated, the corps of College officers should be swelled by such names as those of the Superintendent of the Gymnasium, an Assistant in the Library, and the Steward of Memorial Dining...
...becomes necessary to say once more that we do not publish communications sent to us anonymously. This week two poems and one or two contributions have been sent in unaccompanied by the names of their writers, and consequently are not published. There are certain things that every paper must insist upon: one is, that articles shall be written only on one side of the paper; and another, that the writer's name shall in every case be known to the Editors. Will those who favor us with communications please bear these facts in mind...
...club will be found in the article called "Graduates and Boating," and it is as well that a word should be said to undergraduates on the subject while the graduates are being called upon. Among the other affairs of our University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain laxity about money-matters. The man who subscribes five dollars to help the crew, the nine, or what not, intends, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, to pay the money. He is not pleased, however, to be asked to pay it, and does not himself consider...
...underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar, and implies an obligation for the favor received. The bestowal of money to help men along will undoubtedly always imply a certain amount of obligation, but that obligation should be only a tacit...