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...Well, then," Lampy replied, "as the story of the magnet does n't attract you, I will pass on to the next. I have here a few queries which may strike you as rather queer. Here is one: 'Did you see the ghost...
...instincts of propriety and turning rowdy, - especially when such conduct compromises not merely one's self, but the whole College. The upper classes would indeed have a right to insist upon the non-recurrence again of the outrageous behavior that has heretofore signalized these occasions. But we believe rather in trusting to '85's sense of what is decent and just. Let her only have strength of mind enough to take the initiative in foregoing this discreditable practice of former Freshman classes, and she will commence her career by gaining the respect and admiration of the whole College, and establish...
...rather hard on our ancient friend, I'll acknowledge, but wasn't it absurd? Oh! he's a genius, Jack is; I doubt if there'll be one of you able to sit up in her chair two minutes after he comes into the room. You'll all be rolling off under the sofa, or holding on to the wall for support." and thus I dilated the entire morning on Jack's all-pervading facetiousness, and I had so thoroughly excited the risibility of those nine girls that the mere anticipation of his coming put them into frequent ecstasies...
...narrow path connecting Weld and Matthews there stands a low and scraggy beech. It has neither shapeliness of form nor comeliness of appearance. Neither can it boast utility, for the toil-worn student cannot cast himself beneath its grateful shade; inasmuch as its shade is not grateful, but rather to such a degree baneful, that, oppressed by the perennial gloom the grass grows but sparsely beneath its branches, and the damp, bare ground seems doomed to a lasting blight. Standing with its humble stature among the high-topped, overarching elms that surround it, this poor beech looks doubly stunted...
...Before the end of his course he will probably appreciate the value of literary pursuits, and even if he does not devote himself assiduously to the task of remedying his own deficiencies in this department, he is scarcely to be blamed. There are few Easterners whose culture is not rather handed down than acquired by labor, and it is more the home life and the society of the fellows than the school studies and the elective courses that give the stamp to a man. I have heard it said that Bostonians are not learned, they only have the faculty...