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...deal of moral courage and self-respect to enable him to hold on to his poverty and go through. Ten chances to one he will, if he does go through, come out ahead of the extravagant fellow. But he does not know it, and it is not the less hard for him to grapple with the economy that furnishes him with merely the necessities and none of the luxuries of life. A great deal is expected of the Harvard graduates, but great expectations are not always realized. Luxurious habits formed here will not help him when he comes to work...
...promotion or preservation of that moral manliness and self-respect which alone form and develop the true gentleman. The wealthier young men of each college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer class-fellows are placed by the present system. They have either to contribute what they cannot spare or undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during...
...since we have decided to challenge Columbia, let us have all agreements and arrangements placed in writing, so there will occur no repetition of the unfortunate misunderstandings which, in the absence of written articles, can be fastened on no one, and which almost invariably lead to mutual recriminations and hard feeling...
...eyed wanderer haunts the classic shades of Harvard, looking out upon the world with a dreamy eye of listless melancholy. For years I have seen him stand, day after day, at certain hours, upon the curbing or near the fence hard by some well frequented thoroughfare, and gaze - gaze with an unutterable yearning in his countenance and such a hopeless expression of resigned patience in his look that many times I have been tempted to stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer...
Lacrosse is making a hard struggle for existence at Cambridge University. We are hoping that the proposed visit of the Canadian and American lacrosse teams will increase the interest in this novel game. The Cambridge club numbers forty members, of whom at least one-tenth have played the game before. [Cambridge Corr. Varsity...