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...Senior Class Elections are over at last. Although the meeting was a protracted one, there were but few incidents to disturb its harmony, and the result, we may hope, satisfied the class. The demonstrations made at one stage of the proceedings were highly reprehensible; any one section should learn to respect the choice of the majority, and to do otherwise is an insult to the class. As usual, the larger share of the offices fell to one society, rather in the natural course of events than from any preconcerted action, and, in one or two cases, by the votes...
...that I should learn...
...Should learn to govern and control...
...said that Harvard men at present excel in this department. But it is at least as important to obtain correct ideas of our own writers as to be proficient in Terence or Aristophanes; and a chance is offered - particularly valuable to those who take no English courses - to learn a little something about our noble English literature. And once having heard Professor Hill speak upon subjects wherein he is so competent to pronounce opinions, it is needless to say that it will be a pleasure to hear him again...
...remedy for unpleasant engagements; and you can shake a bore on the strength of it every time. But, my young friend, do not allow these allurements to tempt you into the rash path that leads per asthma ad astra. Breathing slowly and peaceably is a boon which you will learn how to appreciate when you have finished your diurnal sweater of five miles, - a mere nothing, Jim will call it. No! If a man bores you, you can go to sleep; if an engagement is unpleasant, you can be disagreeable to make the score even; and I'm sure...