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...than in polishing the diamonds which are confided to its care. I remember that during my Junior year I went to one or two of the assemblies as they called the parties which the students managed, and my observations at once amused and annoyed me. A number of very good fellows were there who had confined their social experiences to college societies, and who were delightfully ill at ease in the company of anybody but men of their own age. Some who, like you, were blest with assurance tried to conceal their diffidence by a sort of familiar impudence that...
...Good society is something like heaven; its existence is often denied by those who have no hope of getting in. But at the same time it undoubtedly exists, and exercises an influence which is none the less for being unseen. And the more you have of it, the better for you it will be. I find that I am becoming horribly snobbish, so I shall hasten to close my letter. Always behave like a gentleman. If you want to do an impudent thing, do it in such a way that nobody will know that it is impudent till he stops...
...last the prospect of a spring vacation is good. The members of the Faculty have signed a document setting forth in appropriate terms their solemn belief that the best interests of the students in this institution of learning demand that they should have a week of rest somewhere between the first of January and the first of July. This belief is no hasty judgment. It is founded on the observations of several years; and the Faculty have the satisfaction of knowing that others, whose opportunities for forming an opinion have been equal, at least, to their own, came...
...week. The object of each of the four examinations has tests of knowledge, and their object in pointing out the proper way of getting up the subjects, are then both alike unattained. It is a simple matter for an instructor to ask whether his division as any good reason for preferring to have their examination come one week or another. Let us hope that more of them will try the effect of putting such a question...
...smaller colleges no doubt made the change necessary, as the weak state of our clubs made it necessary with us. We earnestly hope, however, that the change here is only temporary, and that in the spring the former state of affairs will be restored. There is no good reason for the inability of our clubs to turn out first-rate six-oared crews. Whether there are sufficient reasons for the action of the small colleges, they of course know best...