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Though this is perhaps the most serious evil of their careless generosity, it is not nearly so vexatious as the daily calls of bejewelled purchasers of old clothes, clerical-looking venders of every useless article, and begging impostors who tramp up and down our stairs and hammer at our doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARITY. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

Harvard formerly had chess matches with Yale; and if we had these now, there would be an opportunity for some persons to engage in intercollegiate rivalry who have not the muscle and endurance for rowing on the crew, nor the skill and strength requisite for playing on the nine, nor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHESS. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

Giving the per cent of candidates not admitted to Harvard for the years 1870, 1871, and 1872, he says, "This large number rejected at Harvard only shows that the examination there was rigid, while the larger number rejected at Yale only shows, of course, that the candidates examined at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONCE MORE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

AMONG Bostonians a student passes for about what he is worth; at any rate, he gains nothing from merely being a student. This may be due to the fact that Boston, from having seen so many students in her day, has fathomed their nature; yet we are cautious in assigning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE REPUTATION. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

Look at that "dig," whom you have known, ever since you entered college, as the most retiring, modest fellow imaginable. Yet he goes away into some country place, and, as he gets out of his old ruts and among people where his superiority is in some respects tacitly acknowledged, you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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