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...Paris; consequently the clumsy amazons and pages, and the crude, undrilled comedians, do not amuse you at all. You yawn and look about you. Not far off is Smith, with open eyes and open mouth, enjoying himself to his heart's content. He catches your eye as the comic man gets off a pun as stupid as the jokes of a circus clown; and he leans across and remarks that it is bully. You smile and nod, and are pleased with the contrast between your own acute perception of the humorous and that of the Occidental intellect of Smith. Between...
...bore you with any more illustrations. You can soon learn how to laugh at people, and how to make them think that you are laughing with them. And when you learn that, ennui will vanish, and you will be as consummate a man of the world...
...this: a large number of those who made up the coalition party in the class meeting, which caused the whole trouble, see now that they misjudged those whom they regarded as their opponents, and would be glad if the work were undone. Those who believe in the best man for every office, without regard to anything else, are now willing to leave the matter to be decided by the sober second thoughts of the class. A majority of its members are apparently anxious to see the offices vacated, and then refilled in a meeting distinguished by the absence...
ACCORDING to the Tablet the new buildings "which will soon be called Trinity College" can be seen from all parts of the country. Surely Trinity's light is not to be hidden under a bushel. The Princetonian congratulates itself that it was not Colonel Higginson, but a Princeton man, who originated the idea of intercollegiate contests. The requiem of the Rowing Association is sung by the Brunonian: "Magnanimous Harvard clung to it to the last, as she was the first to enter it. Now, dazzled by the fancy of initiating a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, wherein if the glory...
...several times for the same men, the inference is irresistible that there was a coalition. Apply this method of reasoning. In the case of each of these offices, about the possession of which there has been so much dispute, but two candidates were balloted for: one was a Pudding man, the other was not. Was it, then, necessary for a person who belonged to a division of the class outside the Pudding to vote for a Pudding candidate when he was not voting for one of his own candidates, lest, forsooth, he should be a guilty partner in a coalition...