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...Athenaeum held its annual supper at the Parker House last evening, which passed off very enjoyably. Mr. Moore was president of the evening and Mr. Vinton toast-master. The ode by Mr. Morse, the oration by Mr. Tufts, and the poem by Mr. Blodgett, were all highly successful...
...loss of a degree would make cribbing a virtue endowed with saving grace. Just as though such losses were not the inevitable result of previous, long-continued neglect of duty; and they would be borne as such by men who were not so childish as to need a master, and who were brave enough to recognize their own responsibility for their acts and to abide by the consequences. Well, make believe they are men, and give them voluntary recitations; but be assured, so long as Freshmen are under men whose own characters are yet so undeveloped as to give them...
This is not necessarily the result of neglect of work, but of the positive inability of many to master or appreciate the study of mathematics; and students who cannot solve knotty problems themselves are obliged to hire tutors to do it for them; thus the training of the mind, the stock argument in favor of mathematics, becomes applicable to the tutor who does the work, but has no effect upon the student for whom it is intended...
Love me in the master-stroke...
...passes,' replied the Shape, 'your happiness is gone; only one little motion and he shall not pass. Listen; I, the master of good and evil, promise you then a long and happy life...