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OPINIONS differ as to the merits of the late novel, Student Life at Harvard; but probably no one will dispute that the delineation given in one place of Sam Wentworth is applicable to almost every Harvard man: "Here he was, - a man in stature, but a boy in everything else, with not even a thought as to the ways and means of life, and a horizon that did not reach beyond Class Day." The biography of a student can usually be summed up about as follows: In early life he decided to go to college; goes to the academy...
...constitution of the Amphyctyonic Council, but on election day eliminates the electors from his ticket, and votes for President directly (as a Western Professor really did), and then practical politicians call him a "d-n literary fellow." This is the result of his college training! A college-bred man can do better in professional life, where his irregular habits may be tolerated, than in business; but even here he is at a disadvantage beside a plain, matter-of-fact man of the world...
DEAR JACK, - If you have ever amused yourself by comparing your own countrymen with the rest of the world, you will no doubt have found that the American is the most one-sided being on earth. If he is a man of business, he is a man of business and nothing more; his whole time, as well as his whole mind, is filled with his means of livelihood, and he cannot spare a moment for anything not connected with money-making. If he is a man of leisure, and, as rarely happens, has nothing to do, he consistently does, thinks...
...intend to bore you with philosophy, - with my peculiar views of the causes and effects of this state of things. I am only going to use this statement as an introduction to a warning lecture, which I sincerely hope that you will read. For a man's life cannot help being more or less evident in his appearance and his conversation; and a person whose existence is as deliberately monotonous as that of most of our compatriots will almost infallibly wear the same coat from morning till night, and talk nothing but shop. I have lately been reminded of this...
...reopened with every prospect of success. Many of the "deserters" have returned, and the Association has at present a membership of over 360. The old steward was induced by a pecuniary consideration to abdicate before the expiration of his term of office, and he has been succeeded by a man who seems to be much better qualified for the place. Viands like to those that are now prepared in Memorial Hall kitchen were never before seen in Commons, and the tables - the students no longer - fairly groan under them. So sumptuous was the food for the first few days that...