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Came out on the horse-car - next day...
...advocate making such opinions our only guide in this, we certainly do, however, give great weight to them in our reading from day to day. When the one volume we especially desire is not in the library, - less hypothetical than its presence there, - and we stand in doubt before those drawers of titles, how often and naturally we base our choice on the remembrance of some chance conversation on books and authors! While such opinions, expressed in the carelessness of conversation or aired on the enthusiastic heights of an excited argument, are found to influence us so perceptibly, why should...
Then what an opportunity of following his own sweet will does vacation here offer to each man! The inveterate "grind" may pursue his favorite study all day long with no interruption from noisy neighbors. The "loafer" realizes the complete heaven of college with voluntary prayers, voluntary recitations, voluntary everything! (which means, to him, none of these little annoyances.) He is free to sleep all day and misuse all the starry night; he is summoned to no exercise except his meals. This brings us to Commons. How unlike the stale routine of term-time is this our holiday bill-of-fare...
...past fortnight), and the celebrated pleasures of the "ringing steel" are at his command. The Brighton Road, too, in sleighing-time, affords a lively and interesting scene. How much better to enjoy it on foot than to run the risk of one of those dreadful accidents which happen every day to drivers there...
Thus, it will be seen, everything centred in the University, and it was thence that all this machinery took its motive power. To-day the system is the same, with the exception of some modifications of detail. The Grand-Master no longer exists, being superseded by the Minister of Public Instruction and Religion...