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This determination deserves admiration. It is the assertion of the privileges of blood and culture. It is the declaration of the existence of a society whose doors are closed against all who do not prove their right to admission. It is evidence that America feels the need of an aristocracy, and that she can afford to support one; and any country which cannot is too poor a relation to be admitted on equal terms into the great family of nations...
...fortune of every father should, like his sins in the Bible, be visited upon his children. It is reasonable to suppose that a portion of that which is now yours by paternal grace, will in time be yours by inalienable right. But even if you be the first-born, you have a right to expect only your own share; and before concluding that your inheritance will place you beyond the reach of want, you must divide the ancestral income by the number - somewhere between two and ten - of your brothers and sisters, and then turn to statistics...
...true color. However, one experience of this kind is quite sufficient, and we earnestly hope and pray that before the next regatta takes place, one shade, and only one, shall be selected and decided upon as Harvard's color. This could easily be done if set about in the right way, and for this purpose we would offer the following suggestion of a practical nature. Another committee, not necessarily captains of the crew, eleven, etc., might be appointed and instructed to decide within a given time, and announce their decision to the College. This committee could...
...Class-Day Committee wish to remind Seniors that all those who do not call for their tickets on or before June 22d (Tuesday), will forfeit their right to them...
...examples of flatness, we may quote the statements that "Columbus is dead"; that " the Cathedral [of Pisa] is built in the form of a Latin cross,"-nothing more being said of the building; and that " before me lay Naples, while on the right, old Vesuvius was sending forth its dense columns of white smoke." Of the Bay of Naples no further mention is made...