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...universal, - the students in each entry uniting to give a present to the goodies who attend to the rooms, and other servants who really need assistance. The duty of this slight undertaking rests, we believe, by precedent, with some Senior in each entry, and we hope they will not forget how much suffering a little thoughtfulness may prevent. Whether our servants be deserving or not, we shall go home with lighter hearts if we do not forget our duty toward them...
...that Herr Klopstock is silly and ignorant for supposing that line 1293 should read n uov, and that Herr Bumfritz, who makes the emendation n uot, is wise and goodly among men. Let all this be done, and it will be odd enough if he shall not forget that Plato and Euripides were real men, who wrote for real men, and that they are indeed
Those who knew well William Samuel Eliot will not soon forget the lesson of pure and elevated character, of scholarly devotion and perseverance, taught them by the unobtrusive example of his daily life; and certainly there is no member of the class of '74, who can recall without a glow of affectionate admiration the manly endurance and patience, never in one thoughtless moment laid aside, with which he bore the pain of a long and distressing illness. His tastes and habits were those of a scholar, but he had a singular loyalty for and unselfish interest in all that concerned...
...regard to the brains, - that some retain impressions like marble, others like sandstone, others like sand, - and his chemical metaphor about the flames of a Bunsen burner calcining the images impressed on the memory to dust, are fine examples of his wildly poetical temperament. But we must not forget his celebrated figure which made such an impression on us that we remember it in full, and will quote: "The ideas of our youth, like the good children in Sunday-School books, die young, and though cremation be preferred to the vain show of tombs and monuments, and the brass...
...gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...