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...instance, the Freshman who has had his leading-strings cut that he might come to college, dubs our University a "hole," either contrasting with the pure and good influences of home the vice and debauchery which he has been told exist here, or because he wishes you to think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this...
...morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present, - I am rising to the work of a human being. .... Have I been made for this, to lie in the bedclothes and keep myself warm? But this is more pleasant. Dost thou exist, then, to take thy pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion...
...reflecting man would pronounce at once that such a state of opinion ought not to exist in "the foremost college in America." He would question whether the working man does not, after all, get the best of Harvard culture, and whether the "grind," discountenancing, of course, a too persistent and unhealthy devotion to study, is not, on the whole, more worthy of admiration and respect than the "swell." I suspect that much of our affected contempt for a "dig" is a result of indolence. It is very convenient for a lazy man to express the opinion that "grinds" and "grinding...
...show that the various interests of the College cannot stand without subscriptions. For all that, the thing is not to be pushed to extremities; and it might be well for the promoters of the next grand scheme to consider whether our long-enduring community could not manage to exist without that particular sport or what...
...club system was organized two years ago for the purpose of arousing a more general interest in boating, and for a time accomplished its object. The novelty soon wore away, and, judging from the present condition of the different clubs, unless something is soon done, our boat clubs will exist more in name than in fact. I shall not discuss the question whether this change from class-races to the present system was an advisable one or not, but I think that the general indifference manifested this fall might be bettered by a little exertion on the part...