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...smoking my pipe and reading very leisurely the morrow's lesson in Latin, awaited his coming back with some degree of unconcern. But when it grew to be eleven o'clock, and as yet no signs of him, I could not help being a little anxious. I don't know why - it is not usual for fellows to worry much over one another's goings-out and comings-in - but yet - there was something, a premonition of danger, I might call it, that weighed heavily upon my spirits. I wandered about the room uneasily; I tried to get interested...
...tide comes in: I know that such...
...know not where to find...
...Harvard on a good footing with the Orthodox world; his coming here would have proved that Harvard was non-sectarian, and at the same time not non-religious or anti-Christian. As to the good that he could have done in the College, little need be said. We all know the place that he holds with the young men of Boston, and if he had come here, his advantages for guiding young men would not have been diminished. Dr. Brooks has that about him that would induce men to go to him; he would not have to go to them...
...university, although it is called the "Hub of the universe." You see from this that we are not Bostonians, nor yet are we New Yorkers, for had we been you would have heard the words "provincial" and "cosmopolitan" contrasted with some considerable contempt. Not that we know what they mean - nobody does. Some clever man once used them, and now everybody uses them, and everybody's nobody, so nobody knows; Q. E. D. Perhaps this is rather a threadbare way for us to try to prove any thing; but beggars, you know, can't be choosers. But to pursue...