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DEAR JACK, - You took my last letter so good-naturedly that I am going to reward you with another; and, as you seem to be rather doubtful as to the comparative expediency of studying and of doing nothing, I shall preach to you this time about college work. You ask me whether it is advisable to study or not. It is pretty much as if you had asked me whether it was advisable to be good; and my answer will be the same. Of course you ought to, but sometimes you had better...
...yourself to openly sacrifice pleasure to duty. The truth is, that any American is provoked by the presence of a person who is in any way his superior; and if you hint to your classmates that you are walking away from them on the rank-list, they will take good care to establish a balance of power by walking away out of sight down a vista of society rooms...
...taken his course he intends to neglect everything else and sacrifice his health in reading up for that particular elective. So it seems. We strongly suspect, however, that if the works of reference are carefully noted down and never referred to, all will still be as it should be. Good resolutions must not be frightened away by the appalling spectacle of the work laid out. Do it all if you cap, is our advice, but let no one work more than twenty-four hours...
...F.THE Princetonian has reached the third number of its first volume, and as college papers go it may be called good. The editorial department might be decidedly improved. The editorials abound in what is called on daily papers "swashy writing." Many words are used to say what might much better be said in a few; and the words themselves are not all free from objection. Unless we are much mistaken, they will not find in either Webster or Worcester such a verb as "to inevitate" nor is the word sanctioned by any usage good or bad. But the Princetonian tells...
...backbone of a successful crew, refuse, almost to a man, to row. They invent countless trivial excuses lest they be disturbed from their peaceful somnolence and made useful to themselves and to Harvard. There does not seem to be a spark of enthusiasm where it can do any real good. Not a single volunteer worthy of present consideration has presented himself. Now, we can never hope to win a race while we go on in this way. It is impossible to get up a decent crew while no one cares to try for it. The present captain is forced...