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...friend should ask us what college paper exhibits most of that generous, noble spirit that characterizes the good and great, and the least of that petty, snarling disposition which Quilp possessed, we should to the Yale Record and say, "Not that, not that." - Dartmouth...
This is pretty good; but Columbia can go them several better, the armorial bearings of the latter institution being exceedingly loud. We quote from the Acta Columbiana the following description of its crest: "Above, Jehovah in a glory...
...that's true, all very true. Well, to come to the point, do you think you know this lesson? (H. says he did know it once.) Glad to hear that, Mr. H. Well, what's the chapter to-day about? (H. says it is about civilization.) Very good, sir, very true. I 'm glad to see that you looked at it. Well, sir, what is civilization? (H. says it's the absence of unenlightenment.) Y-e-s, that's all true; but - you are, I think, a little too general; try to be a little more concise. Well...
Original works of art are of course beyond the reach of any college student. Heliotypes are so thoroughly within the reach of everybody that, very naturally, nobody wants them. What you do want and need are good photographs and tolerable engravings of pictures or of statues or of buildings or of scenes which everybody has not seen, and which everybody does not see in every room that he enters...
...amount of pleasure and of mental relief which a few good pictures - peculiarly your own property - will give you is astonishing. There are many moments when you are too indolent to work, or even to think of anything to think about. You sit in your chair, lighting cigarettes and mentally declaring that this sort of thing is unbearably slow. You look at your walls or your mantel-piece in the condition in which they at present are, and you are reminded of nothing but this same slow sort of thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress...