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...that partners are all they demand for the evening. Full satisfaction will be given the ladies by the certainty they will not be left to ornament the corners. If they are kind enough to come at all to Cambridge, it is certainly no more than courteous of us to place ourselves at their disposal, and to do all we can to make the evening pass as agreeably as possible...
...Partly glad and partly sorry," replied Seventy-eight. "Cambridge is a pleasant little place, and so is - and I think Boston is delightful too. I have been fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of many charming people here, and for that reason shall be sorry to turn my back on this part of the world. But as far as college itself goes, I'm rather glad than otherwise to be through with...
...Well, in the first place there is more or less time wasted at college, and after four years of comparative idleness men ought to be willing to go somewhere and work. We get tired of being college `boys' all the while...
...Senior. "X. is one of those quiet fellows who never does anything but study. He positively seems to like it; and it is all very well for him, because his father is rich enough to let him study as long as he likes, and to give him a good place afterwards. Now I don't care particularly about studying forever, and besides, my father has given me distinctly to understand that it is about time I began to make my own bread-and-butter...
...school education in a leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder that my course does not seem entirely satisfactory. I have had a rather good time; but I am anxious now to go to some place where I shall feel that I am at least accomplishing something tangible, and where there will be something to call forth my ambition. If I speak as an individual, I think I can at least say that, if not a majority, at least quite a respectable portion, of my class agree...