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...Shoot the boat!" cried the boys; said the girls, "Did you ever...
...starting-point to what men may be. To justify our acts by other men's is to set up an external standard which, in politics for instance, would induce corruption to grow stronger and in thirty years destroy this nation. We've had enough servility. No emancipation proclamation was ever more urgently needed than that which shall release the countless slaves of public opinion, and put a stop to such theatrical performances as that of Mr. Blaine in offering his pulse to be felt, that the country might know he was not nervous! In college the demand is equally imperative...
...current slang of the days of the Regent, "perfectly Corinthian." I need not say that I refer to that well-known organization, the R. E. T., - Rapid Eaters of Tarts. We have occasional meetings, at which are performed certain mysterious rites, which no earthly power could ever persuade me to divulge; and after the serious business of the evening is over we sit down to a supper, of which the uniquely shaped apple-tarts, which give the society its name, form the staple. There is in the same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation...
...Greek must have felt at seeing some disagreeable fellow, who had outstripped him in military or political life, or who had neglected to invite him to select little dinner-parties, packed off, bag and baggage, for parts unknown, must have been one of the most unalloyed sentiments that ever filled the human heart; and I often find myself lost in envy of the ancient Greeks...
...girl, for thou art ever young...