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"O no. But don't drive so fast, or we shall tip over again." So, nothing loath, I let the mare go her own gait. It took us a good half-hour to get home.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTMAS WAITS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

"OSSIP," the writer of "Conceit vs. Custom," in the last Crimson, says that whoever believes that "complete independence is the only position that can be taken by a man who has any self-respect" is apt to be "a disappointed aspirant for popularity"; that such a person "openly depreciate[s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM." | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness or illegitimately from insincerity. When La Rochefoucauld says that hatred towards the popular is nothing but love for popularity, if he means hatred of legitimate popularity, he is certainly right. But the popularity which results from insincerity men do not hate: they feel contempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM." | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

The Freshman's whole trip will be one triumphal journey, which will culminate only when he alights from his carriage to fall into the arms of those goddesses, his sisters. Such a welcome! Why, there will have been nothing like it since Orpheus was torn to pieces by those Thracian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOMUM. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

As to grievance number one, I would suggest that it has nothing to do with the selection of new books, under which head the writer classes all his wrongs. I venture to state that on proper application to headquarters the necessity of a second copy of any book would be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT vs. FANCY. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »