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PRACTICAL FRIEND. I should think you would prefer having them plank the walks...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson has objected that prayer is the highest act of which the human mind is capable, and that we ought not to be deprived, or allowed to deprive ourselves, of prayer in the morning, we would like to submit that it is not we who pray, - we prefer to do that in our rooms, - but a single member of the Faculty, while the most of his hearers are far from being in a devotional frame of mind. Understanding that the gentleman in the Board of Overseers who decided the matter of prayers by his vote was also chiefly...
...like everything that has to do with the practice or views of a man's associates. Moreover, the most earnest efforts are often misconstrued by rigid supporters of the pledge and prohibition. For this reason people of attainments and culture are disposed to be shy of the subject; they prefer to be silent, as if it was solely a matter of taste, not of right and wrong...
...their work, are not the men to indulge in any vice that lessens their energy. It is necessary, therefore, as far as the classes are concerned that furnish the common drunkards of our police courts, to show them what is for their self-interest, to teach them to prefer permanent future good to present indulgence. Where the effective desire of accumulation is strong, the people are sober and industrious. It is rare to find among the crowds of Irish that throng the savings-banks any intemperate; it is equally rare to find any who do not take their...
...make Commons compulsory. "Several important gains would result from the changes suggested. In the first place, many students would board at the Hall who were not compelled to do so by poverty. The poorer students would of course resort thither, but many who were not absolutely poor would prefer to board there. Among students it is not well to have poverty the ground of association. Secondly, for hasty meals in a hot, crowded, vulgar room, under circumstances which make polite observances difficult and social enjoyment impossible, would be substituted a decent and comfortable service which would promote good manners...