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...printing these letters it is needless to say that the Magenta does not take upon itself the support of all its correspondents may say. Simply to show what the students of other colleges may think on matters of common interest, and what they may think fit to write, is all that is designed...
...chum or some caller, asked continually to do something foreign to the work that demands your attention, your mind at last takes on a desultory habit, to overcome which great energy is needed, - energy, too, that ought to be employed in studying, not in bringing your mind into a fit condition for work...
There is no earthly thing more fit...
...spotless, we know very well how your dreams are to be realized! Born and bred in some quiet New England village, where two croquet-parties in the week would be considered downright dissipation, naturally bright and ambitious, urged on by a schoolmaster proud of having the opportunity to fit one man for college, and sustained by the admiration of a circle of unlettered relatives, you are, all at once, removed to a position totally different. Surroundings, duties, pleasures, everything is unfamiliar. You are, in fact, transplanted from easy-going boyhood, with loving hands ever ready to guard you from...
...support him, he need not be at all particular about standing upon many solid principles. Now, I take it to be one of the best of proofs that our friend's natural greatness of mind is as exceptional as that of his feet, that he has never seen fit to avail himself of this good pretext for being a scamp...