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...fact that over 200 undergraduates turned out at mid-night, and ran a distance of more than two miles across country to witness the burning of the great ice houses at Fresh Pond." This statement is, in a measure, a true one. The Harvard student, as a rule, does display a great fondness for conflagrations, and his encouraging presence does much to promote the efficiency of the work done by the Cambridge fireman. Now this tendency to "run with the machine" may be accounted for in two ways. In the first place, it may be a relic of the student...
...When he was defeated, he turned to the right about, and supported zealously the very man he had been describing the day before as unprincipled and corrupt. I am sorry that Mr. Lodge could have given us no other advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life, and that the devil should always be fought with fire. If Mr. Lodge will read the history of the Anti-Slavery contest, which he is so fond of quoting, he cannot discover one apology for evil, or one compromise with evil men and methods made...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Wheeler and Winkler. The Right and Wrong of Home Rule for Ireland. Sever...
...discussion of "cribbing." One late writer indeed seems to be of opinion that not a few men who are recognized as manly and honorable in their principles and conduct in all other matters, yet regard this as a venial one, not to be judged and condemned by the same rule of honor and justice, as the offences of falsehood and cheating are and must ever be regarded in all the conduct and dealings of private life and of business among men - especially among "gentlemen" as we all claim, and ought, to be. All must agree with the correspondent...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Wheeler and Winkler. The Right and Wrong of Home Rule for Ireland. Sever...