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...allowed to accumulate upon them, to even worse quarters in the boat-house. As the flags recall victories which have been won, and suggest others to be won, there could be found no more appropriate place for them than the one in which they would be seen so often by so large a number of students. And as the flags would be an ornament, even to Memorial Hall, we hope that the Directors will take some measures to have them once more unrolled...
...HAVE often been struck with the number of epithets that are applied to our University. As each person's opinion differs, so does his epithet. A fond mother declares that Cambridge is a horrid place (whatever that may mean) for young men. A maiden aunt, who has heard of her nephew's troubles, that it is as much as a boy's life is worth to go to such a college, and that she would not send a son there if she had one. A father, that it has great advantages, but is frightfully expensive. Our young lady friend...
...make a home of it. It is very jolly to have a place to lounge in, and all that sort of thing. The great objection to it is that all who have the entree are tempted to become professional loungers, - a class of people, as I have often told you, who are not appreciated upon this side of the Atlantic. Tant pis pour nous...
...power; and as long as they do not interfere with you, you had better not interfere with them, - technical interference being the public mention of their existence. If they openly offend you, of course you must not calmly submit; but my experience of them is that they do not often attack unless they are attacked. And then they turn upon you all their batteries of petty malice. My advice on this matter is pretty much what it is on every other, - keep your own counsel. Be independent, but do not be fool enough to thrust your independence into people...
...respects, clear-headed and intelligent. It is not that they are ignorant men, but that, however well informed in other respects, they are ignorant of the very knowledge which is most essential to their position. Failures in business continually occur through mistakes in financial enterprises, and these mistakes are often due to ignorance of the laws of Economy. The experience of every year shows more and more clearly the necessity of a knowledge of this science, and the certainty with which disaster results from a neglect...