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...first sight, we must confess, a row, in which the marshals are sometimes obliged to use their batons like policemen's billies, and a series of clownish actions that would disgrace school-boys of ten years old, may not seem the fittest exhibition of ourselves we can make to our friends. We have dwelt sufficiently, however, on the fallacy of confusing facts with ideas. It needs no argument to withstand the enthusiasm of innovation. The nature of its error is apparent to all of us who have howled in the Yard in our Freshman year, who were properly drunk...
...recalcitrant. In point of fact, this seems to be the only way to unite the members of a society and to draw votes from the other elements of the class. In judging the elections we suspect that some, who are dissatisfied, have not wholly freed themselves from the old notions, and, while desiring an open election, have forgotten its very essence. And here it is very properly claimed by the friends of the new system that it succeeds if it selects able and fit men for the places irrespective of the "element" they may belong to. The criterion...
...artificial stimulus in eliciting the best men for the places is not laudable? This is the new regime, and demands that each element shall present its strongest men as the condition of representation. The evil is for two, three, or any number of elements to come together, as of old, and formally partition out the offices to the various "elements" to be filled as the cliques and lobbyists decide...
...there is one thing sweeter; snugger, squeezer, kisser, hugger, than another in this world of love and sunshine, it is going to a college mixed. Smiles, sugar, and soothing-syrup, serenades and sadness, study nothing, go among 'em, everything. The old fashion of "going it alone" is played out for the better one of "going it double." Some may take their education "straight," but as for me, "give me 'mix,' or give me nothing...
...have not seen much of the world, - I use this phrase in its literal sense, - a good photograph of a picture which has meaning will impress that meaning upon you. The sublime figures which the old artists of Italy have left behind them cannot fail to arouse wondering thoughts of the minds which could conceive such forms, and of the thought which must have brought them into being. The splendid limbs of the marble relics of the ancients will carry you back to the days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures...