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...this system every goody employed would know that her wages depended on the efficiency of her labor, and she would then attempt to do something besides breaking mantel-ornaments and putting ashes on the floor, which at present are about the only traces which she leaves of her presence in a room...
...classed with him and do as he does; that more than half of us feel no interest in what we are doing, and, to raise our marks, we pretend to have that which we lack. He is rash, it seems to me, in judging others by himself. I know too many really interested students to believe that a majority of us are Digbys...
...blow, and we are assured of being Digbys in our relations with ourselves as well as with the Faculty. It is amusing to see "the singing of the Glee Club" and "the Art Club's knowledge of art" condemned in the same sentence. The Glee Club certainly pretends to know something of singing, but yet it is undeniable that they can sing; and whether they sing well or not, they cannot justly be called hypocrites until they pretend to do something that they fail to do. With the Art Club the case is different. No knowledge of art is required...
...Sophomore supper is the only time when the class meets socially, and for this reason each member should feel it his duty to make every exertion to be present. The many who were absent will never know all they missed; while to those who were present, an allusion to the supper will bring up some of the pleasantest memories of their college life...
...ultimate government was in the hands of an elective body, holding their places for life. This body contained from twenty to thirty members. We are in the dark as to its powers. How it was elected we do not know, but from one authority we learn that it was elected by and composed of persons who seem to have been otherwise wholly unconnected with the town. The immediate government was vested in a Legislature of one chamber, which had also judicial power, elected in some unknown way, and responsible, not to the people, but to the higher body. The executive...