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There is a feeling not uncommon among boys leaving our higher schools, and often shared by their parents, that Harvard is a good enough college for the rich or for the poor; but that those who can make no profession of belonging to either of these classes may as well think of going elsewhere. This impression undoubtedly finds explanation, if not justification, in the conditions required from competitors for the well-advertised "prizes" which we have been considering, together with the great increase in the rent of desirable rooms. Now, if this latter policy is to be continued...
Surely there must be something radically wrong in a system which permits such injustice. That the evil exists every student well knows, however disinclined some may be, for very obvious reasons, to acknowledge or speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...
...trubbled by ye cattarrhhe in ye Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young Philip to spend the afternoon with him, and doubtless derived much pleasure from the conversation of the ingenuous youth...
...faces of the coasters seemed strangely familiar to me. A double-runner was about to start; in front was a man whom I recognized as one before whose eagle eye I had often trembled, but now that eye was firmly fixed on the North Star; in one hand he had a compass, in the other a cane. Behind, his arms fast locked about his leader's waist, sat another mathematical genius, one whose smooth boyish face has often caused the timid Freshman to wonder that "one small head could carry all he knew." Behind him, a large, comfortable-looking...
...offered, in the college regatta, for six-oared boats rowed by class crews, for it is believed that such a race would have many advantages over one confined exclusively to Freshmen. The spring regattas which are always held at Yale and Columbia, generally at Cornell and Wesleyan, and often at Bowdoin, Brown, Princeton, Williams, and other colleges, consist largely of six-oared races between class crews; and the victors of these several occasions (perhaps Juniors at Yale, Sophomores at Cornell, and Freshmen at Wesleyan) might not improbably be tempted to try conclusions with one another for the class prize...