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...doubt, it is unpleasant to lose in a contest, but there is almost as much satisfaction in losing pluckily a well-fought race as in winning it. Besides, the man who perseveres is bound, sooner or later, to come out creditably. Laziness and indifference have also a large share of influence in keeping men from entering. The former, at best, is unmanly, while as to the latter no one has a right to be indifferent to seeing his college take a second or third-rate position in athletic sports, if he can aid at all, and every...
...think that all of these causes may have some share in determining the present state of things; but it seems to me that much mutual good might be accomplished if there were a change in this matter. A student who sees that a professor takes no interest in him naturally comes to regard the professor as an evil that must be endured at recitations, and may then be shunned. It is not for him to take the initiative, and he makes no advances...
...decidedly queer. I can hardly believe, either, that a subscription of even $20,000 by the present Senior Class would have the effect of lowering room-rents. At any rate, I have not faith enough that this would be the result to be willing to contribute my share of the sum needed to make the experiment...
...compound interest, thus forming a kind of Savings Bank. Whenever an officer or instructor ceases to be such, he must, unless he has served the number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time. And at the death of a fund-holder his accumulated share is to be paid to his family or other persons designated in his will. The Corporation, therefore, so far from depriving professors of a portion of their salaries, is in reality increasing them by five per cent and providing besides a competency for their families. The plan is certainly...
...Lion by his own strength had captured a fat Ox, and the Fox and Kid endeavored to seize a part of it. "No," said the Lion, "the crafty Fox can care for himself, and as for you, Kid, since you prefer to hunt with him, you shall share with him." So the Lion and the Owl fared well, and the Fox was satisfied with his Hare; but the poor Kid had nothing, and when he found a juicy branch, he only turned up his nose and said, "Give it to the Lion...