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...Rome," &c. And, after all, this is the sort of life which makes a man of a fellow. I have not seen much of Cambridge society as yet, but shall let the ladies see me when I get to be a Junior. I don't accept invitations at present, as I think strongly of going into athletics. I began to train for our class crew, but found it too confining. Your friend, F. F., is visiting here, and is putting on a good many lugs. Beware, Sol, old man, woman is a false and fickle thing, as Mercury said...
...house, I have found to be a remarkable woman. She has read Goethe entirely through in the original. She seems interested in me, though I cannot decide whether she is in love with me or not, as she is extremely modest. I do not contemplate matrimony at present...
...indeed, from conflicting with the Union, a Legislature, meeting on the alternate weeks, would, they are convinced, increase the prosperity of that body; for it would afford a supplementary practice to debaters, such as could not fail to add to the excellence of the debates in the present society. The cordial cooperation and encouragement of the President of the Union and others, who opposed the scheme of the Legislature as a branch of the Union, but warmly advocate it as an independent society, would entirely prevent the action of those who now make this proposition in your paper from being...
...aggregate, belonging to individuals in their service, liable consequently to taxation and attachment, and conferring upon the owners a right of criticism and complaint touching the financial management of the University, such as no individuals now possess. The second plan was simpler, called for no sacrifice of present income on the part of the professors, and laid no new responsibilities upon the corporation; after being before the professors and assistant professors for several months, and receiving their almost unanimous approval, it was entered upon the records of the corporation, on the 29th of November, 1880, `for the purpose of exemplifying...
Looking only to the present, there was no cause for the action of the authorities, as only three of the young ladies were accustomed to use these alcoves, - so few that objection could not be made to the room which they occupied. Looking, however, to the future, the action of the authorities was timely, reasonable, and just. The number of men who study in the Library is rapidly increasing, and it will not be long before there will be a question of room. But behind all this there is a principle involved dear to all those who wish...