Word: popularizations
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...that every gentleman ought to possess. And ever since I met him I have been tormented with the idea that you might possibly be sacrificing your old notions of manners, which I am bound to say were very good, to the theories of good-fellowship which happen to be popular among a certain class of people in Cambridge. So I am going to relieve myself by a lecture on manners, which you had better read if you think you need it, and skip...
...have told you more than once, this is a world where many things should be thought and not spoken. A safe rule is never to express an opinion when you can possibly help it; and this rule ought particularly to be observed when you find yourself differing from the popular world on a subject which is not of vital importance to the salvation of either party concerned. As a religious friend of mine once observed, who had been thrashed for expounding to a fast friend his views of the other world, it is well to learn the grace of silence...
...RICHARD GRANT WHITE says there is no such thing as 'in our midst.' We should like to ask where he would locate the pain that makes paregoric a popular beverage with the young...
...spent in doing nothing in a "gentlemanly" way, i.e. in smoking, talking small gossip, and playing occasional games of poker for undergraduate stakes. And you will not find it difficult to pass most of your mornings in a way which will secure the favor of the Faculty. If any popular movement is on foot, you had better throw aside your work for the time being, and take part in it. But in ordinary times you will find that your evenings will give your classmates quite as much of your company as they will be apt to want, and will, very...
...lamb reposing peacefully side by side, but other colleges are not so fortunate. The report of the trouble at Williams, if it is true, shows a decidedly disgraceful state of affairs. We shall not moralize upon the terrible enormity of indulging in "cane rushes." This amusement was never popular in Cambridge, and we cannot judge of the pleasure to be derived from it. But the breaking of pledges is a thing not to be treated lightly; it shows a lack of the commonest sense of honor which throws into the shade a disregard of finer points. The long list...