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...Every man must sooner or later learn to take care of himself; and nowadays most men come to college at an age when this lesson is by no means premature. At first the wickedness of the world seems overpowering but before long they find that it is possible to live in a very wicked world without being very wicked. After all, too, the college world is not so very wicked. It talks in an unprincipled way, and it is talked about in a still more unprincipled way; but you will find in it very few fellows who are worse than...
...University Nine met the Live Oaks last Wednesday on the Boston grounds for the fourth time this season, and were defeated by them for the third time. The game was one of considerable interest, for both Nines did well at the bat and in the field. The Live Oaks made fourteen base-hits from Ernst's pitching, while our men struck out five times. Leeds, as usual, distinguished himself in batting...
...Live Oaks...
...does not live to say the whole...
...very like the Greeks, as, in short, we are elegant, cultivated, and handsome men, with a decided taste for beauty of form, - and for good form, too, - and as we live together in small and purely democratic communities, sufficiently like each other in tastes and interests to be eternally at war, it really seems a pity that we have not yet adopted that admirable feature of Greek polity, - ostracism. It is my fortune to be a member of a certain society, in its elegance and refinement truly Attic, or, to use the current slang of the days of the Regent...