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Every would-be writer goes to Paris, where he meets other congenial youths, by whose zeal his enthusiasm is whetted, and in whose company he cannot but give himself single-hearted to his original ambition. Often poverty compels labor, which is the surest road to success, and in every case there is a subtle influence, that of the still fervent reaction which is fast culminating that engulfs men with the resistlessness of a vortex...
...class-day and to make their guests regard class-day as a pleasure, not as a weary trial, seniors must have the use of many rooms. If these cannot be secured in the college buildings, the only remedy is to engage them outside at a great expense, and often at great inconvenience to guests. By time-honored custom undergraduates have always courteously yielded up their rooms to seniors on class-day, thus showing due consideration for the feelings of the senior on this, perhaps the most trying day of his life. But now certain men refuse to follow this custom...
...good deal. One of the most remarkable customs of the early days of the college was that of arranging men in class according to social position. This must have occasioned many worthy but poor students considerable mortification and chagrin. A writer on the subject says: "The scholars were often enraged beyond bounds for their disappointment in their place; and it was some time before a class could settle down to an acquiescence in this allotment. The higher parts of the class commonly had the best chambers assigned to them. They also had a right to keep themselves first at table...
...good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready cash was so difficult to attain that the term bills were often paid in kind, butter, cheese, fruit, etc., being the commodities offered in exchange for education...
...primary class and have a chance to "lick" all the little boys without interference; or, as the Courant fitly says, Yale men "are altogether too prone to imagine other colleges prejudiced against" them. This latter alternative is rather the worse of the two, for the bully often outgrows his youthful failings, but the suspicious man is always shunned and disliked in return for his timidity. Yet we are forced to accept the latter proposition, for we cannot consider that Yale will be content to override her inferiors in base-ball, or without taking part, to watch her natural rivals contending...