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...borne without real hardship. And such a way of living could not but be in the interests of study. It is a pity, therefore, that the rooms in the new buildings should have been designed for chums, having, as they do, more rooms in a suite than any except the most luxurious of us could dispose of, if rooming alone...
...they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they eat too much; no particular harm results in either case except to the individual...
...present moment there are teachers nearly everywhere, except perhaps in some secluded districts in the mountains of Auvergne or in Lower Brittany. I maintain, therefore, that it is not in the number of teachers that we are deficient. And yet we are in reality behind the other nations in matters of education. Whence does this arise? There are several reasons. In the first place, the children are not sent to school, or are taken away too young. Every commune, as I told you, pays its own teacher. It gives him a fixed salary, varying between four hundred and eight hundred...
...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! Ancient mutton and the cheerful bean give place to the monstrous turkey and savory viands in three courses. The tables groan under their unaccustomed burden, and the marble...
...usually laid out, at the same time that the latest scintillations of wit and humor are exchanged. This is only the beginning, but we cannot delineate further. Lunch, calls, driving, dinner, theatre, supper, and so forth, follow. There is no break in the possibilities of enjoyment, except perhaps in the afternoon for a couple of hours, when, in this slushy weather, the Park does not substitute the Bois. New York by gaslight, however, is nearly equal to the standard of Parisian brilliancy, and the day can be ended as successfully as begun. A week of this sort of existence...