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Observation will show that their position is not unusual, and that almost every man's class associations are limited, and limited by social boundaries. The class lines are still drawn in society rooms as strictly as they ever were in the recitation-rooms of old Harvard. The modern student when he thinks of his class thinks of his society. He will no doubt remember a few men whom he has casually met in recitations or elsewhere, but he will forget the existence of numbers whose paths have deviated from his own. If he is not a member of a society...
...supposition that "antecedents" is synonymous with "ancestry" is mistaken. In using the former word, I referred to circumstances and not to persons, and I think that even my opponent will allow the value of antecedents of this kind. He will admit that education raises a man above the level of his ignorant fellows; and he will hardly deny that a person who has always been surrounded by cultivated and refined people has a presumptive advantage over one whose life has been passed with the comparatively uneducated classes...
They are neither man nor woman...
...when appropriated; whose unhappy readers speak of him as of Tupper as a poet or Baird as a philosopher, - a writer who places Porter, as intellectual, opposed antithetically to Emerson and Fiske, as trivial; and who considers Porter's work the culmination of the intellect of Yale, - such a man, we say, has far too low an estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest it. But as the full array of Yale's centennial display bursts once more upon our stunned imagination, we can but say, with poor old Tate Wilkinson, after his famous walk to the window...
...carried on board a number of cattle, to be killed on the passage, and for this purpose we also carried a man who called himself a butcher, on the lucus a non lucendo principle. This butcher, having made several vain attempts with a knife on a bullock (which we shipped at Rio), and next danced around him for several minutes with an axe, - the animal looking up at him from time to time more in pity at his inefficiency than in anger, - came aft and announced his trouble to the captain, who, with the three sporting gentlemen from New York...