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...EVER since the river closed the candidates for the crew have been steadily at work. Five afternoons in the week, from half after four until five o'clock, the crew works in two gangs; one gang rowing at the hydraulic machines in their recently refitted gymnasium in the boat-house, while the other runs between two and three miles...
...when he knew him he was not learned or wise, but he would be some day if he remembered the answers to all his questions. Mark was too sanguine, or else his memory failed him; he is not wise yet. However, he is still trying just as hard as ever...
...familiar enough with the views of your mother and of your great-aunt Lucretia upon this matter to know that you, who have passed a good portion of your life in the society of those ladies, went to college with an idea that a man who had ever succumbed to the influence of liquor deserved to be excluded from the society of civilized Christians. I am also familiar enough with the phenomena of the beginning of a Freshman-year, to understand that you have probably been invited already to about a dozen punches, from which many of your classmates...
...definition of mine, he is never surprised and never shocked. At the same time, while he recognizes the existence of all sorts of evils, great and small, there is no reason why he should take part in them. He ought to retain as firmly as ever the principles which guide his-own conduct; but he ought so far to conquer his aversion to any particular vices that whenever he meets a new man he can gauge his character, he can set off his good points against his bad ones; and if he finds that the good points predominate...
...could only gratify my longing to be with my fellow-men. One room after another I tried, where congenial souls are wont to congregate, but dark windows or unanswered knocks told the same story for all; and, at length, I found myself in the Yard, as companionless as ever. "Why, O my chum," I groaned as I gazed at the gloomy window-panes of my room, "didst thou avail thyself of thy senioric privileges and betake thyself off for a week's respite from college duties?" and I leaned moodily against a tree. Of a sudden a cold puff...