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...whether it be for law or art or invention. But these are few. Most of our young men have to choose that for which they seem most fit, or which lies nearest at hand. But the training for specialties is to be put off; life is too varied to permit of being all devoted to the study of one specialty. A wider range of knowledge should be entered upon and pursued until the last moment that can be spared from beginning the special training...
...clean score: First gent - "Madam, permit me to introduce my friend, who is not nearly the fool he looks." Second gent - "That is where my friend differs from me, madam. - [Tiger...
...class and not the other? What inconsistency is this! If Harvard's degree is supposed to connote a definite amount of religious training, represented mathematically by about two hundred and thirty doses of chapel and thirty of church, is it not an imposition upon the public to permit a considerable number to take her degree without any of this training received from the college itself and in many cases with none received at home - in hardly any case with any of a compulsory character received at home? Why are not the wishes of parents regarded in the matter of forced...
...matter of the occupation of the little room, there are now only three vacant tables in the main hall, and these are all near the door, and consequently so cold as to be very uncomfortable at this time of the year. As soon as the weather will permit, or as soon as vacancies occur in the main hall, the little room will be vacated. Those who occupy the room do not do so because of any partiality, and they understand that they will have to remove into the other hall as soon as circumstances will permit...
...recent exploits of our noted handits. Yet when we attempt to defend ourselves by pointing to the evidence of our higher civilization, we are confronted by the spectacle of our chief temple of learning housed in ancient barns and cramped and obstructed by the scantiness of resources which hardly permit it to assume the dignity of a common school...