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...There is no such thing as a burning hell, - only a purget'ry. Everything on this world was made for mon. He rules over all the birds and the beasts and his wife. Women are not the equals of men, for they can't keep secrets. Go to your 'sacred student,'" says John, "and tell him you have killed a mon, and nobody will ever know it; tell it to a woman, and it will be known in 'foive days...
...have no "consolidated" to play against. In addition to all this, at Yale one of the university nine is appointed to specially look after the freshman nine and oversee them. He can enforce discipline with more success than can another man of the freshman class, and can keep them up to their practice. Besides, at Yale the freshmen have something to play for. The fence plays an important part in stimulating the nine to great efforts for success. Here there is nothing tangible gained by defeating Yale; we have no fence, nor any substitute...
...after living two days in this apartment that the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot told his wife that to know the Butterfields was a liberal education. Phillpot's great trouble at home is that he cannot keep his own wash-rag; if the children get into the bath-room before him in the morning, they invariably use his wash-rag, and the consequence is that Phillpot's heart leaps for joy whenever he visits strangers and has a wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece...
...education exists. The article is so rabid in its denunciation of Harvard as a school for virtuous young men, and so laudatory of the pure and virgin-like atmosphere of institutions where young women exert their elevating and refining influence on the beatic youths, whom by daily converse they keep from the sins that would condemn them to the eternal torments of the wicked, &c., &c., - the sermon, we say, so teems with such sentimental platitudes that we feel a strong desire to respond in more direct language. The literature, says the Edinburgh Review, that issues from a college...
...upper rooms are for the most part left free; yet I have seen attic windows so strongly barred that escape was impossible. They looked onto the roof, and no doubt they had been thus blocked up in order to keep the undergraduates from passing from one set of chambers to another. Even where there are no bars, there is some danger from mere height, coupled with the absence of a second staircase. In my Oxford days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged...