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...think the cause of such a man's unpopularity is his disregard of the fact that there is a mean between servility and self-assertion. It is a tendency common in young men to take extremes. They seem to feel, in spite of the auream mediocritatem of Horace (who, by the by, knew more about the world than they do), that their sense of right will not admit of their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would...
...Young man, can you tell me what those names over the alcoves mean...
...mean time I thought I would sit down and write a sheet or two to put forth my happy idea to the college world...
...Princetonian, in a paragraph on the Packer Quarterly, completely forgets the ordinary courtesy that one paper owes to another. We heartily approve of criticism; we ourselves intend to criticise, and are willing to be criticised in return. But criticism does not mean simply giving an opinion; it means also giving grounds for that opinion. We quote from the Princetonian...
...thought of? They know they are building up good strong constitutions that will stand by them in after life, and they don't know what a headache or a weak stomach is. Some of them have pulled victorious oars for the honor of the old University; and they all mean to, if they are so lucky as to get a chance...