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...that your expectations, or your natural advantages, or both, may assure you of ample means for life; that you can, without a preliminary struggle for fortune, become the independent gentleman of your dreams. But, if this be, you must not imagine that your duty to society is at an end. The privilege of an independent gentleman is, not to disregard and hold himself aloof from the affairs of his fellow-men, but to mingle in them in the way which his tastes and acquirements lead him to choose. In literature, in politics, in science, in art, he has wide fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...this year's swing and dash, and in a paper boat if it is really faster than a wooden one, there is no reason why Harvard, if she will let no rival outwork her this winter, should not again be in the first three, and this time at the end of the three which she longs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...grass in the morning and the slanting shadows of buildings and trees in the afternoon make a remarkably fine view, and this view would be finer still if the cedar-tree in front of University should be taken away during the summer, leaving a clear vista from one end to the other. It is impossible to speak of the appearance of the Yard without urging again that the barren walls of such buildings as Appleton Chapel and Gore Hall may be covered with ivy or woodbine. We have never heard any one question the fact that the appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

RHETORIC, Whately's Rhetoric to the end of Part 2, including Preface, Introduction, and Appendices; Lessing's Laocoon (in the original or in Miss Frothingham's translation), Preface and Chapters 13 - 26 inclusive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prescribed Courses of the Junior and Sophomore Years, | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

...stating that any decisive arrangements for the coming season would be postponed until the first of May. In April another circular was issued, a copy of which will be found in the Magenta for April 23; in this it was stated that the Trustees had found themselves at the end of the means at their disposal, and to carry on the School it was proposed to charge a fee of fifty dollars. This circular was followed, early in May, by another, naming the length of the session for 1875, the departments of instruction, and the instructors and lecturers engaged. Before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PENIKESE SCHOOL. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »