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...championship; games with them must necessarily be few because of the distance that separates us from them, and the time and money required to meet them. As the matter now stands, we cannot play with outside clubs on either their grounds or ours, nor can we play often with other colleges because of the distance, etc.; and as there are no amateur clubs in our immediate neighborhood, it would seem almost inevitable that our nine, of which we have justly been so proud, should fall rapidly from its high position, all for want of practice. There can be no doubt...
...existence. Though it presents so flourishing an aspect on paper, its existence is but little more than nominal. During the middle of last term it gave some signs of vitality, but the exertion of its one concert seemed too much for it. We learn that it was often difficult to get even a quartette together, and that second tenors often had to take the place of first. If we are not misinformed, the club is in no better condition at present...
...scend to the vulgarity of flirting. . . . . But a woman ! as a woman she seems something divine," etc, etc., ad infinitum. The character of the gentleman, who says he is twenty-eight, but who, from strong internal evidence, is barely eighteen, may further be understood from the following remark : "How often have I had a dear foolish girl inflicted upon me, and fairly writhed at the intellectual torture to which she has subjected me by her remarks. But there has been no escape. Everybody would have called me a boor had I ventured to tell this young lady how empty...
...easy to understand that persons who are careful never to express disapprobation at foolish or vicious acts or speeches should imagine that it cannot be done in a gentlemanly way. They assume that it is necessary to "blurt out" abusive censure, forgetting that censure is often clearly expressed simply by silence. Their argument seems to be that in any case they would give offence, and no gentleman should give offence, - a principle the folly of which is exceeded only by its harmfulness. For, when principle is at stake, as in buying fraudulent examination-papers or talking ridiculously about getting drunk...
...assure you that all my friends to whom I have spoken on the subject - and we often talk about it, since we can now look back over our course - agree unanimously in saying that they have had quite enough of the undergraduate life. They don't think that a longer stay here would...