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...that so much sameness is displayed in the furniture and general aspect of our College rooms? Is there so much similarity in men's tastes that they converge by some natural law towards red curtains, cheap prints (obtained we all know how), photographs of Soldene, Aimee, etc., etc.; or, is it merely because it is easier to fit up a room after the stereotyped pattern of one's neighbor's, than to exercise individual taste...
...know one room in college that it is a delight to enter, because a certain discordant harmony exists in it that shows innate refinement. This room approaches more nearly than any other I am acquainted with, my idea of a tasteful, and at the same time thoroughly comfortable, study. Every one is struck with it, and exclaims, "How well you are fixed up!" But the conclusion is drawn that it must needs be very costly; yet there is nothing extravagant in it: on the contrary, the owner assures me that the amount he laid out is less than is spent...
...your home. You will hear things said and see things done, which you have always been taught to regard-with holy horror. For example, I will speak of drunkenness. I am familiar enough with the views of your mother and of your great-aunt Lucretia upon this matter to know that you, who have passed a good portion of your life in the society of those ladies, went to college with an idea that a man who had ever succumbed to the influence of liquor deserved to be excluded from the society of civilized Christians. I am also familiar enough...
...money alone is enough to carry him anywhere, and who lives up to his belief, does not occupy an enviable position. He is treated civilly, for hardly anybody can afford to cut him, but the whole world laughs at him behind his back. Now I don't happen to know your friend Smith, but from your account of him I strongly suspect that he is a brother of my old classmate, of whom you have often heard me speak. He had a great deal more money than he knew what to do with; and, as a natural consequence, he patronized...
...life. Neither of them would dream of requiring him, after he has graduated, to attend church, . . . . and very likely neither of them would think any the worse of him for not attending. What their reason may be for upholding the old theory of a college police, we do not know." The World closes by putting its views, for the benefit of Messrs. Emerson and Clarke, into the form of an interrogation which certainly ought to receive the consideration of these gentlemen and their colleagues of the Corporation. "What becomes of the theory of the elective system, which allows an undergraduate...