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...tree, very few men can invite a large share of their acquaintance to these the most interesting parts of the programme of the day. To be sure, there are some few extra tickets belonging to men who ask no friends to Class-Day; but their number is so small that they may be almost disregarded...
...cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays under the light thrown on them from time by the papers and discussions of this Society. It is pleasant to know that the founders of the Society do not intend to confine its benefits to the number, necessarily small, of those who make a study of Shakspere occupy a large part of their time, but that the "Society's work is essentially one of popularization; of stirring up the intelligent study of Shakspere among all classes in England and abroad," and for this reason cheap editions of the Society...
...might go on with the long list of great things which we owe to sentiment, but the lesser ones are dearer to us. I know, my dear Magenta, that I am a person of very small consequence, that my literary contributions are but little valued by you, but must I give up as useless even the few mementos of consideration and regard which I cherish with so much care? Must I light my fire with the paper which contains a record of my one College office? May I not feel sentiment? Nay, may I not grow sentimental (utilitarians may sneer...
...keep on going all his life; he will never pass on to that which is the object of secondary instruction. And the schoolmaster will remain a schoolmaster to all eternity; he may be transferred to a city, if he is a capable man, instead of remaining in some small locality; never can he pass the barrier which retains him in primary teaching and come to secondary teaching. With you the one runs naturally into the other; the second is, so to speak, but the prolongation of the first. With us there is no connection between them, no transition from...
Several men having spoken in favor of paying the debt by making an assessment of a certain sum on each man in the class, and as this method seemed preferable to the usual one of trusting to the liberality of a small number, it was voted that each man should be asked to pay two dollars, this amount being considered sufficient to meet the indebtedness...