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...most high-toned thing on which to begin. So I commenced looking around for some favorable investment in this line. Firmly convinced of the truth of the proverb, "Palma non sine argento per vias rectas," my small board fairly burned in my pocket, while I was searching for some good introduction to this unknown land...
...content with these exertions, I elected Fine Arts, and here my trouble began. All went well for the first half, and though nothing definite has been heard from the Blue Book of the midyear, yet I rest under the firm conviction that the result was a good hundred. Then, too, Mr. Perkins's lectures must not be neglected, and judge how my feelings were gratified by a glowing eulogy of etching as the highest field of engraving. With what light steps did I attend the next lectures in my favorite elective! But "put not your trust in professors." What...
...breakfasts in Memorial Hall come short in several respects of those at the old Thayer Club. To descend to particulars: At the Thayer Club we used to have the best coffee that could be obtained (except in private houses, of course) this side of Boston: its quality was fairly good, it was served hot, in the coffee-pot, at the table, and accompanied by hot milk. Our present coffee is the weakest the writer has ever seen, it is sparingly endowed with calorific properties, and plentifully supplied, in unknown and unvisited regions, with cold milk (perchance once boiled...
...have every time been doomed to disappointment, we have now given ourselves up to the reflection that the ways of Directors are dark, and "one of those things no fellah can find out." We are now asking ourselves, "Why did we ever appoint the Directors?" and "What good are they now that we have appointed them?" These questions we have never been fully able to answer, but, thinking that perhaps Directors were rather a good thing to have in the house, we have hitherto been silent. We probably should have remained so had it not been for last Friday...
...glad to hear that the "ladies of the Freshman Class" at Cornell "have shown their good sense by voting not to attend the Class Supper." Their enthusiastic advocates of co-education appear to be sobering down...