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...Princeton man pays for an engraved plate and fifty cards, two dollars, of which seventy cents, through the liberality of the engraver, goes to the India missions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...man, the image...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...always more or less coarse. If you pass your time for a month or two in their company, and in their company alone, you will be amazed at your own roughness, to say the least, when you mingle once more with the fairer portion of humanity. A man at college, where home and where home friends do not happen to be accessible, is very apt to pass almost all his time with men. And the result is that a college education, which ought to make finished gentlemen, oftener succeeds in roughening than in polishing the diamonds which are confided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...course you know, during your first year or two at college, you cannot expect to mingle with the gay world as if you were a grown man. Even the delightful assemblies of which I spoke are, or used to be, closed to you. At the same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...Junior and Senior years examinations become but a pleasant offset to recitations. If our residence here were prolonged to twice the present time, we should be extremely disgusted if an accident should prevent an examination, and would warn all our friends from taking the elective of a man who cared so little for keeping his promises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIGHT REFLECTIONS ON A WEIGHTY SUBJECT. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »