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Where goes man? Why, his heart he'll follow...
...last paper, on the subject of lawn-tennis. Not only did the writer disapprove of the game, but he seemed to advocate violent measures for compelling those who like it to devote themselves to rowing instead! Granting that playing lawn-tennis is not violent exercise, and is not a manly sport, which seems to be your correspondent's opinion, only makes it more improbable that it diverts any men from rowing, as those who play it would be weak and effeminate; but we do not grant that it is unmanly, unless unmanliness consists in using skill as well as strength...
...importuned us with his complaints every day since the announcement of the change, and has asked us to write an editorial on the subject. He has brought forward all the arguments used of old against such change, and he insists most vehemently on the point that, to force a man to get up and breakfast between the hours of a quarter past seven and half past eight, is manifestly a return to those barbarous customs which he, for one, has always thought it his duty to oppose. Undoubtedly to one accustomed, as he has always been, to Eastern luxury, there...
...rooms in Matthews or Holyoke will have inferior service, because the scout - we mean janitor - will have no fear of being discharged if he does not quite suit his employers. Apart from the manifest disadvantages of this particular measure, the College should never authorize a monopoly, by putting a man into some office, and commanding the students to patronize...
GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance, a distant relation, I was pleased to find that there were only a few friends and neighbors present, and that it was a simple family party. There is nothing so agreeable to a man of strong family feeling as an assembly of his kinsmen and kinswomen around a well-filled board. The intercourse between those who are bound together by the ties of friendship as well as of blood affords one of the rarest pleasures I am acquainted with...