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...unless perchance in Europe, hang heavily on his hands during the last half of vacation. The problem how to enjoy one's spare time is a difficult one always, and ninety days of camping, hunting, and sight-seeing become tedious. Rest is what is wanted, and rest is as often found in change of work as in idleness. The study and contemplation of nature after poring over books cannot fail to be enjoyable and refreshing. While cultivating the literary and aesthetic side of our nature, we should not neglect the scientific and practical...
...some disagreeable fellow, who had outstripped him in military or political life, or who had neglected to invite him to select little dinner-parties, packed off, bag and baggage, for parts unknown, must have been one of the most unalloyed sentiments that ever filled the human heart; and I often find myself lost in envy of the ancient Greeks...
...system. According to this regulation, each and every examination may be called, if not the cause, at least the condition of getting a degree. Is it fair that the work of a single three hours should have such importance? Even good scholars, owing to indisposition, mistakes, or misunderstanding, often do poorly on some one examination. Indeed, I can remember men who rank in the first twenty of their class being warned on an examination in which they had been unfortunate. It is not too much to venture the statement that there are few men in College who have...
Suspends, conditions, and too often drops...
...order to allow persons to infer the truth we must often "prevaricate." And when the advantage is undoubted we are perfectly justified...