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...estimate an instructor makes of our work, it is but justice to give us this estimate as early as possible. A man who is dissatisfied with a mark puts more work into the course, and, as a rule, when a high mark is attained, the student feels ambitious to keep up his standing. A state of uncertainty is the worst possible state, and examinations can hardly be regarded as over until we learn their results...
...defiant man is more common, and on the whole the more manly type, exemplified by heroes and stubborn men everywhere. Now neither of these classes of men can really justify their position. If they keep on growing on all sides of their nature, they will inevitably come to see that this individualism is very petty; that all of importance in their lives depends upon living, active union with other beings. This is the lesson that Faust, for example, learns through the keen-witted criticism of Mephistopheles. Experience, in short, teaches everybody finally that as an individual...
...tendency being developed to hear imaginary sounds. Dr. Sargent said that in college the man who roomed above him was a great user of tobacco, and unfortunately was physically incapacitated from taking exercise. The effect of the weed was so marked upon his hearing as to keep him up half the night flaring a revolver to drive away cats, when in reality a cat was never seen there...
...what is to prevent the payment of the money as soon as the article is sold. Everybody knows when it is likely to be bought, and there seems to be no necessity at all for waiting a week or so to send a postal card. The society might keep a book in which every article sold second-hand would be entered; arrange the names of the members alphabetically, so that a sale could be easily determined, and allow it to be open to public inspection. This would cause much less trouble to both parties. In such matters as these...
...July. For the purpose of playing this game, our nine went to New York, at an expense of several hundred dollars. After staying there a couple of days we were informed by the captain of the Yale nine that it would be impossible for him to keep his men together until the 5th, and so our nine came back, leaving the game unplayed. As the Yale nine remained in New York and Philadelphia for two weeks after this date, playing several games with the Metropolitans and Philadelphias, it is presumed that something very unexpected happened by which the men were...