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...years' standing, who was talking about the associations of college rooms and their influence on a young man's character, said that he thought that, whenever an opportunity occurred for honoring some one who had become very distinguished and had earned a special tribute from his Alma Mater, an oil painting of him should be hung in the rooms he had occupied, to be handed down from year to year as one of the permanent properties of that room. The present state of our finances would, however, make it necessary to find some less costly transmittendum to perpetuate the memory...
...that the book-learning acquired is superficial, - it is usually sound and thorough, - but the relation of this culture to the man generally is at best merely that of a coat of paint. Nor is it merely a case of scratch a Russian and find a Tartar, for the oil of the paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof...
...drop of the oil of olive-seeds...
...oil is drawn from the neck with care...
With the sweet myrrh oil I moisten...