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They blossomed soft-how much they say When summer goes...
...highest rent paid for a room in the new dormitory at Williams, Morgan Hall, including heat, is $180. - [HARVARD HERALD. High enough, in all conscience. Six months on a western ranche would benefit immensely the soft occupant of such a room. - [Notre Dame Scholastic...
...other objection, that "soft" courses are generally selected, we can only oppose the counterbalancing argument that this is not true. When the required work in Greek was abolished at Harvard it was generally expected that the student of Greek would immediately become as rare as the mastodon or the dodo. But the Greek courses are still crowded, their students are more successful and enthusiastic than ever, and the Harvard Greek department is one of the chief glories of the university...
...with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better than his own wretched one. And the boy is morally as badly equipped as pecuniarily. Long ago the uneducated and soft-hearted father lost his authority over his son, who, with his few Latin verses, deems himself far above the mental horizon of his village. Neither has he ever been subjected to the moral influence of his teachers; he stands entirely alone, proud of his independence, which he interprets as strength...
...which these tugs are now pulled out of doors, and it is certainly very much better practice for the out-door pulls than the old way of pulling on the gymnasium floor, but there is still an essential difference between pulling on cleats and pulling on the soft earth. Candidates for the team to be sent to the Polo Grounds can best be chosen from the class tug-of-war teams, but when the team chosen begins practice in the spring it should be borne in mind that they are training for a contest essentially different from those...