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...would utterly scorn to make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable only so far as it is genuine." That this practice, however, which is both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion as it is not amenable to the laws of the police courts...
...rule for Ireland is the absorbing topic of English politics. As many students have elected courses in English history, student interest in the subject of home rule is on the qui vive. The usual Union spirit will undoubtedly characterize the debate this evening, and all who attend will find profit and instruction...
...Bowdoin College student, who says he has been there, gives his views on the romance and profit of spending the summer vacation as a hotel waiter. He says the summer months are given the student to rejuvenate his mental faculties and tone up his physical constitution, and seems to think the one is not accomplished by association with the help usually employed around hotels or the other by sleeping in laundries or under bowling alleys. As to the financial success of the scheme he is equally skeptical, his experience seeming to have been that the cooks got the greater part...
...redoubt were still to be seen in its vicinity, and soon after it was built a great number of revolutionary muskets and cannon were stood there. After the war of the rebellion these old arms were sold at wholesale to private parties, who retailed them off at a good profit as relics of the revolution. The cannon, which now stand on the common, were presented by the state to the city of Cambridge at the time of this clearing out of old stock...
...that in the first case the college is working in behalf of the gas companies, and in the second, in behalf of the students. And if, as is probable, the college does-not obtain as much as five per cent. on their investments, there would be an actual profit in the matter...