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If you have superiors in intellect or in character, avoid them; for they may inspire you with ambition, which is the most restless and - to one who holds my philosophy - the most uncomfortable and thankless of all passions. On the same principle, be much with your inferiors; then shall you...
It is said, of course, that if a student is worth making anything of, he should need no incentive so sordid as money; he should seek improvement for its own sake, and give his less fortunate brother a chance, - in other words, give him the race. For it is the...
I am dreamy and romantic. I found Granada perfect, but unhappily Granada disagreed with me. I had been there but two days when my Moorish reveries began to be interrupted by - colic. I tried to walk it off. It was no use. The more I walked the worse was the...
AMONG the few useless annoyances with which we are still afflicted, the practice of requiring blue books to be brought to the last recitation before the examination is perhaps the most exasperating. For weeks before the "Mid-Years," as the time approaches five minutes past the hour, a frequent succession...
ONE half of the Senior Class has received blank books, in which autobiographies of its members are to be written in the form of answers to a set of printed questions sent out by the Class Secretary. The books will then be handed over to the other half of the...