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There are three rules that young men might be advised to follow: First, live in the open air all you can; second, touch elbows with the rank and file; third, talk every day with some one who is your superior. The second of these rules, especially, is not observed here at Harvard. It would be better if we were on good terms with all sorts of people, instead of assuming so often our own superiority. The rank and file turn out a pretty good sort of people, and to associate with them good naturedly and intelligently only tends to broaden...
...examined types in the Michaux collection at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, in the British Museum of Natural History in London, and at the Kew Gardens, also in the vicinity or London. At the Kew Gardens, there is the largest collection in the world of both dry and live plants...
...tribes live together in small villages along the coast, which are composed of houses, each shared by two families. The houses themselves are constructed of driftwood and are covered with a thick layer of turf to render them air-tight. The entrance to these houses is an underground tunnel about thirty feet in length, which finally emerges through the floor of the one room. The furniture consists of a sleeping bench about six feet wide running the length of one wall, and a few racks for hanging clothes. The only other things that could be called furniture are two soapstone...
...common error to suppose that the men of this University live in rooms the walls of which are covered with embossed leather; t at they have at hand every luxury of modern life. As a matter of fact, there are but few such. The great majority are of moderate means; and it is this diversity of condition that makes the experience of meeting men here so valuable...
Perhaps the best lesson to be drawn from this is the value of living our lives as free as possible from the commonplaceness of every day existence. All of us live more or less with what we hope to be or to do, rather than with what we are; and these so-called dreams are among the best realities of life. The triumphs of science itself have been gained by great men who dared to dream and go beyond the limits of actual fact and knowledge...