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...decided there, thus leaving no time for the little civilities always expected from public officials. Arguments would have been useless to prove that we received less attention, enjoyed fewer privileges, or were regarded even with less respect than our older brothers. Conviction on that point was impossible. Fortunately that ever-present delusion of a blissful state never fades until seen through the eyes of a Sophomore or Junior. Harvard's youngest sons are seldom spoiled by indulgence, or handled with excessive care and tenderness...
...Senior Class met in Upper Massachusetts Hall last Wednesday night for the purpose of electing officers for their Class Day, June 19, 1874. The meeting was the largest ever held by the class, 146 members being present, and was opened by the election of Mr. Richmond as Chairman and Messrs. Merwin, Elwood, and F. J. Stone as Secretaries. The election of officers began with the choice of Orator, and Mr. R. H. Dana, being the only candidate, was elected by acclamation. For Poet the candidates were Messrs. Mackintosh and Fenollosa. The result of the ballot was as follows...
...bright tints and assuming one of a duller sort when any one approaches, so our recluse draws about him his mantle of chilling reserve if any one ventures to break in upon his privacy, and with some well-worded excuse is gone, leaving one to wonder how he can ever break through this coldness, which, like a coat of icy mail, repels all advances of a friendly sort. It may be that some are so inclined that to their minds this solitude is real pleasure, but we can hardly think so; to us there is no state so utterly desolate...
PROBABLY no one has ever attempted prose writing wherein he has endeavored to convey his ideas by metaphors, without feeling the force of Voltaire's complaint "En l'ecrivant meme l'idee m'echappe." And if this is true of prose writing, where words are not restricted, how much more must just be the complaint in the case of poetry, where, in the choice of words, sense and jingle seem ever to be having a Kilkenny cat-fight in the brain of the unfortunate devotee of the "Art of Poetry." And yet poets do unmistakably attain a skill in reconciling...
...affairs, after leaving college, which gives them this greater consideration, - and who will not agree with you? - but it would be hard, and more, for you to show that this experience differs in any marked degree from that which the comparatively illiterate can and do obtain as well without ever stepping within the portals of a college. It is not yet sufficiently plain to us, furthermore, that nearly all our good political leaders have been scholars, and almost all the bad have not. On the contrary, it has been our impression that so nearly have all the statesmen or would...