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Then we began to go up again, and very fast, I doubt not, although we seemed hardly to move at all, as I watched the spot of sky above, and bent every particle of will-power on trying to keep aching arms and numb fingers from relaxing their hold on the rope. I hope that I shall never again suffer the agony of those few moments. They seemed hours. Once, I thought I should have to give in; but I looked down at little Elsie, who was twined around me, with her quivering hands clasped about my neck...
...that when a poor young man enters the university the contrast is more than ever painful to him. This is a matter which must be mostly governed by parents. If they permit their sons at college an undue allowance of money it is certain they will spend it as fast as it comes to hand, with no thought of the morrow, and probably with the fixing upon themselves of habits of extravagance which will be highly dangerous, should a change come to their fortunes after they have graduated. A youth at college should not be denied sufficient means...
...Sloane Laboratory is fast assuming definite proportions. It is a fine building and will add greatly to the appearance of the college...
...gentleman, and a very noble one, or he could not have written such a book as this. It is the best story of college life we have ever read - 'Tom Brown at Oxford' not excepted. A friend tells us that it does not fairly catch the spirit of the 'fast set' at Harvard. We presume it does not; but it has done better still - it has caught the spirit of true manliness, and will find an answering sympathy in more breasts than those of 'the fast set.' It is tender; it is joyous; it is beautiful; it is noble. Fresh...
...members, it is not incumbent here to touch upon. In justice, however, the association should know that the unexpectedly large membership necessitated the employment of additional service to such an extent that it was impossible to secure the best. The process of "weeding out" is taking place as fast as good waiters...