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...doubled interest. Most undergraduates are as profoundly ignorant of all that concerns the French, Italian, and Spanish literature as they are of German literature, and, having no acquaintance with the languages, are obliged to remain in ignorance of a great deal that is indispensable for every fairly well-informed man. That a large number of the ladies of Cambridge would lend their presence to swell the number of listeners no one can doubt who takes the trouble to cast his eye over the audience at any one of the lectures now in course of delivery...
...University, having filled his chair for twenty years. He had previously borne high office, and performed distinguished service, alike in the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the State government, and had been, from his early manhood, a successful and honored member of the legal profession. He was a man of excellent ability, of the most strenuous diligence, of an integrity absolutely impenetrable, and of a benevolence which made his whole life an unceasing ministry of kindness. Those who knew him best knew not that he had a fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect...
...bill-o'-fare from the dishes on the tables right and left, I caught snatches of topics that seemed appropriate for any place but the dinner-table. At one table there was going on an excited discussion over the solution of oblique triangles, at another I heard a man quoting Whately verbatim, and before I reached my seat unpleasant associations connected with sulphuretted hydrogen and cyanide of potassium were suggested by an embryo chemist in my neighborhood...
...enough to have a man come up and ask you your marks on the mid-years, with a view to comparing them with his own; it is annoying to have a fellow-being draw you into a discussion on hydrostatics; but when a gentleman at your own table takes out his last examination-paper and offers to tell you all about it, it is time to raise the cry against this invasion of the dinner-table by shop-talk. Dr. Johnson said that the man who did not care for his dinner would care for nothing else, and experience...
...truth is, men are hanging back to see who their antagonists are going to be. This is, of course, nonsense; if a man is capable of entering into an athletic contest at all, he ought not to be afraid to have it known that he considers himself a fair match for any other man of the same weight who may happen to be his opponent. We understand the feeling that prompts this procrastination, but cannot do otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar...