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...existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism." Nothing was further from our purpose than to disprove the existence of that "fungoid growth"; on the contrary, we regret that there is so much of it here; but we ventured to suggest that the epithet is often applied too indiscriminately. The misinterpretation of our meaning is so obvious that we do not see how it could be made accidentally...
...could have given a more striking example of this "independent man" than "G. E." has done in setting forth at length his own opinions. They are precisely the sentiments which we have so often heard advanced by men who boast of the exalted moral pinnacle they occupy above their classmates. What is "G. E."'s treatment of Hollis Holworthy, whom he seems to consider the typical popular man, but a case in point? H. H. avows his intention of getting "as full as a goat." "G. E.," whose opinion is not asked, intimates, "delicately but intelligibly," that he is "gabbling...
...often pretend to like college life, and to believe in it when they really think it a sham. I for one have grown thoroughly tired of this "college life," and I think four years at Harvard quite if not more than enough...
Many of us have seen those round pieces of card-board, bearing on the obverse the illuminated motto, "Scratch my Back," and on the reverse a piece of sandpaper. We have often seen them, and have often made unsuccessful attempts to light matches on them; but I venture to say that it never occurred to the venerable Alumni when they reared Memorial Hall that the tablets and the carved wood-work would ever be used for a "scratch-my-back...
...passes without our hearing of the resignation of some one who has occupied a position of responsibility in a college society or club. Undoubtedly the men who resign have their private reasons for so doing, and into these reasons it is of course not our province to inquire. It often seems, however, as if they looked on one side of the question only. Before accepting a position of importance a man should weigh well everything that might be disagreeable to him; and after he has once accepted it is only just to the society that, in spite of difficulties...