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...does he do what he has done. Volition is developed in him to a very high degree. Precedents do not influence him; instructions and regulations do not find him - and yet he is not erratic. He is conceited - but his conceit is not vanity. He has assurance - which seldom degenerates into impudence. He is a paradox, - a man who has no distinctive characteristics, but is nevertheless entirely "sui generis...
...supplying at his own expense German periodicals for the use of his sections, but also for the good example he thus sets to other instructors. Nothing encourages a student in his work so much as the energy with which he sees an instructor carry on his elective; his enthusiasm seldom fails to kindle his pupils. It would, of course, be too much to expect every instructor to furnish periodicals at his own expense. But Professor Bartlett's action, let us hope, may suggest to the Corporation the steps by which such pleasant collateral means of study might be added...
...Faculty's prohibition of Graeco-Roman. But, however this may be, the fact remains that wrestling at Harvard now amounts to nothing. Another feature in our athletic exhibitions needs improvement. The tug-of-war is always arranged at the last moment, and the men who pull have seldom practised more than three or four times together. Now, the heaviest possible teams are chosen from each class with the purpose of showing which class can really pull the hardest. This makes an exciting contest, and nobody would wish to see the custom changed; but we think that all would like...
...thought he looked terror-stricken at this; and I therefore concluded that he did not love his wife. Men of genius are seldom fitted for quiet domestic joys. I know this is so, for they are never at home when I call...
...Seldom touch we nearest those...