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...begin at the foot of the ladder, and yet unprepared to begin any higher. Granted that there are a considerable number of students who go through college in this manner, and find themselves in a perplexity as to what to do after graduation, this fact cannot be given a general application. A good many go through college badly, and a good many go through it well. We think there is no doubt that those who go through it well, that is, with diligence and method, are superior on their own ground to the men who enter business or a profession...
Since there will always be persons without sufficient judgment to discredit general remarks, those who pretend to be liberally educated should avoid them for the sake of their own reputation for common-sense. A man can make more sweeping assertions in five minutes than he could prove in a lifetime, and a habit of doing so is almost invariably a sign of an immature mind and a narrow judgment...
...rather strong he politely informs you that had you known anything better (I suppose he means worse), or had you mixed at all with the world, you also would call Cambridge a hole. This leaves you with the comfortable feeling that you are very ignorant of things in general, being acquainted with the manners and customs of "holes" only. However, I will leave my readers to find out the exact meaning of the word as used in this way, with hopes that they have not lived, as I have, in a "Hole...
PROF. MCCRADY will deliver a course of general lectures at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. All students interested in zoology are invited to attend. The lectures will be delivered in the Lecture-Room of the Museum, at 10 o'clock, A. M., every Saturday, beginning...
...regular board; for each man would pay the regular price beside paying for such extras as he might order; but those who took extras would naturally not consume the regular fare, although they pay for it; therefore all the non-consumption would go to the credit of the general stock and thus decrease the general expense...