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I therefore feel that I may without impertinence call the attention of your readers to a plan which has occurred to me, and which may not prove impracticable. It is nothing less than the extension of the class festivities over the dreary waste of time which comes between the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A UNIVERSITY WEEK. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

I know one room in college that it is a delight to enter, because a certain discordant harmony exists in it that shows innate refinement. This room approaches more nearly than any other I am acquainted with, my idea of a tasteful, and at the same time thoroughly comfortable, study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

Again, you may say with bitterness that my advice to you comes too late, - that you have already done several things of which you are ashamed. All right. Don't do any more; and if you can control yourself in the future you will have obtained experience that will be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

Your room, to be sure, is furnished plainly; but your worst enemy could not call it shabby. And I flatter myself that it will not generally be pronounced to be in bad taste. The curtains, the paper, the furniture, and the carpet are in keeping with each other; and barring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

I shall trust your taste in pictures, too. Don't overload your walls with old masters, and be called an old fool instead of a young one. Don't waste your money in sporting-prints and third-rate French engravings. But choose pictures that are worth looking at, and at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »