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...reason for existence which made them, though they were not very entertaining, very popular indeed. I am told, however, that their days of power are numbered, - that the outsiders have mustered this year, and borne off in triumph the offices which the poor old societies thought were theirs by right. If this is true, it is possible that the popularity of the societies may follow their prestige. However, whether this occurs or not, you had better join one. If it does nothing more, it will serve as a bond of friendship between yourself and all the other members, past...
...write them; and I sincerely hope that you have not found them utterly worthless. One or two friends who have looked over my shoulder while I have been writing have found great fault with me, and have called me worldly and cynical and snobbish. They may be right. Perhaps I am. But I do not think that I am a bad fellow at heart; and I do not think that my letters are bad at heart either. If you have read them as I wrote them, if you have taken satire for satire and seriousness for seriousness, I am quite...
CORRESPONDENTS of the Boston Transcript have given their views this week upon the behavior of undergraduates at the Boston theatres. Much of what they say is only too true, and we are among those conservative persons who believe that a few men have no right to disturb a large number of their fellow-beings by disturbances in public places. We have heard the other side of the question maintained. There seems to be an idea in some minds that if a person disapproves of actions either on the stage or in the auditorium of a theatre, his proper course...
...lack of funds. Where this poverty will be unavoidably and disastrously felt is in the matter of new boats; and it is here that the graduates can best help us, here that they can best prove the interest they profess in us, and best establish a foundation for the right they claim of influencing the boating policy of Alma Mater; for representation without taxation is as unjust as taxation without representation...
...gentleman. Although in the struggle of life you will have to meet again and again men who are not and who never can be what you are, you need not make yourself like them. If you remember one of my old rules, you will always be right. Never do a thing which you will be ashamed, if need be, to confess. If you are true to yourself, you will never know what shame means. Make up your mind to be something, whatever that something may be. And be, if you can, something more than a prattler of stupid advice like...