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...mode of instruction in oratory. It is a sign, not of strength, but of weakness, in a faculty, if it is obliged to expel students for expressing obnoxious opinions. Either these opinions are well-grounded, or they are not. If they are, is a student to be punished, rather than thanked, for calling attention to what needs reform? If they are not, has the Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen...
...soon be observable. The Junior crew, being light-weight, will undoubtedly make a better show, and the Seniors will hold their own, to say the least. The Sophomore crew contains some of the heaviest men, but this fact seems to work against them. They are too self-confident, relying rather upon their big men than upon hard muscle and pluck. The Freshman shell is not expected before the middle of May. This is unfortunate, and will handicap them in the race unless they can borrow a shell to practise...
...Though rather apt to burn...
...eyes of any one who wanders by the banks of Lake Waban cannot fail to be attracted by the towers of Wellesley College. Mine were, when, after a rather unsuccessful afternoon's sport in the pretty pond, - whose waters were stocked with black bass at about the same time that its shores were stocked with pretty girls - I walked along its wooded banks...
...speech; but as I did not think it quite good taste to make a pretty speech upon such short acquaintance, I merely remarked, "No, you don't "(for she certainly did not), and, throwing down my rod and basket, seated myself on the grass at her feet. After a rather painful silence of a few moments, during which she scanned my face with a somewhat naive curiosity, I rushed into the breach in the conversation with, "Are you at Wellesley College?" "Yes, I am," said she. "Guess you're a Harvard boy." I confessed to this accusation...