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...said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor's expression or to see what he is looking at, it is still...
These puzzling cross lights and dazzling sunbeams may be seen to advantage in U. 2. There on a bright morning the different portions of a class are divided from each other and from the instructor by bands of sunlight and zones of darkness. Moreover, through the windows right before us we have a full view of Thayer or Weld, as the case may be, so curiously and fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought...
...respect, and the friendship of manly men." The reason he assigns is deceptive. If he means that we look upon no popular men as manly he makes a groundless and false assertion ; if he means that we hold that a number of popular men are not manly, he is right. We hold to the common view that those popular men who, when occasion calls, express themselves against vicious talk or acts are manly, and that those whose popularity is due to a careful avoidance of expressing disapprobation at such talk and acts are not manly. The independent man would...
...Perhaps you are right, after all," said he; "I agree with what you say, in theory at least, though I doubt if it will hold in practice. But then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard with the intention of doing fairly well, of getting what knowledge and experience I could conveniently in three or four years, and of finishing off my school education in a leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder...
Then I walked slowly back to College, wondering which was right, and thinking of the dear ones at home, and of the happy Christmas we 'd had, and of the happy days to come. "After all," thought I, "we are here to work, not to play; and when the work is over, we have, thank God, our own homes to play...