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...rosy hues of hope are often vain...
...True, they do not directly inculcate bad principles. They are too wily to do that. They prefer to accomplish their end, in a safer and surer way, by the subtle teaching of manners and acts. Among the more abandoned students many a conspiracy is hatched; in cold blood they often settle on the best plan of working the religious ruin of some fellow-student, and ruthlessly execute it. All of us are familiar with the method of a young man's ruin. We know the lad who entered college a member of one of the strictest churches, well fortified...
...relied-upon physician. Nor is he always the most trusted in society; he is apt to wish to be all things to all men, and for this reason there will be many who refuse to confide in him. He is the surface man of his time, and he treads often upon a thin crust of earth which inevitably breaks under and precipitates him far below the influence of man's good opinion...
EVERY year, or, at the most, every five years, witnesses the rise and fall of a popular poet. His coming is as certain as that of a financial panic, rather more frequent, and, in its way, almost as disastrous; but, though his end is often pitiable, he enjoys, for a time at least, the rewards and flatteries due to genius real or supposed. The papers have always a spare column for his productions, and a well-trained band of reporters and reviewers to invent, or, if needs be, discover, his antecedents; while the reading public lavishes upon him that superfluous...
...rank of literary societies, but its future is ours to make or mar. It is incumbent on the present members, therefore, and those soon to follow, to guard against any weak reliance on its ancient reputation. Let the advantages of membership exist not solely in name, as we too often hear it said they do, but let each member take a pride in keeping up the standard of its former literary excellence...