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...stated meeting of the Board of Overseers on April 11, the Hon. Martin Brimmer resigned his membership, having become a Fellow of the Corporation, and the election of the Rev. Joseph Henry Thayer, D. D., as a Fellow of the Corporation, was presented and referred to the Rev. Messrs. Brooks and Hale and the Hon. Mr. Holmes...
...depends solely on his own high rank for his daily bread, has few of the amenities of life. After six or eight hours of sustained intellectual effort, an hour or two in the course of a week spent in dancing, or a half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists imagine. The very fact that to hold a scholarship requires extraordinary abstinence, self-control, and mental strength, disproves the much-harped-upon liability to excess...
...enough to have a man come up and ask you your marks on the mid-years, with a view to comparing them with his own; it is annoying to have a fellow-being draw you into a discussion on hydrostatics; but when a gentleman at your own table takes out his last examination-paper and offers to tell you all about it, it is time to raise the cry against this invasion of the dinner-table by shop-talk. Dr. Johnson said that the man who did not care for his dinner would care for nothing else, and experience...
...NEVER see a proctor go by without feeling like praying for him. To think of the depth to which some of my fellow-creatures have sunk! To think that whole, able-bodied men, some of them peradventure endowed with reason, can thus grovel in the dust, and deceive themselves in the thought that they are pursuing their duty! O Popoi! how sad! how sad! Earth does not contain a more pitiful spectacle. And I wonder if any cruel Nemesis will reduce me to such a lot, and at once a cold chill pierces my marrow, my hands involuntarily seek...
...most offensive part of his article is his denunciation of what he calls "Harvard contempt," "Cambridge Miss-Nancyism." None of his examples prove anything to his purpose. Of the worthlessness of student opinion as to the character and abilities of a fellow-student we are all aware. Harvard College has placed on its governing board two of the gentlemen mentioned, and has bestowed upon them other marks of honor. Of the influence Mr. Emerson and Mr. Adams have on the thought and opinion of Harvard students it is unnecessary to speak. The charge that Mr. Sumner was impolitely treated...