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Speaking from experience, I can say that not sixty per cent of the class write anything at all, and the most part of what is written is not worth a picayune. Now and then a man has something worth mentioning, but the average life is a very cambric-tea affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

My rhetoric is running away with me, and if I do not hurry back to a calmer and more commonplace style you will soon be laughing at me, and this is almost the only letter that I have written to you which I do not wish to be laughed at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

I do not mean that you ought to forget that you are a gentleman. Although in the struggle of life you will have to meet again and again men who are not and who never can be what you are, you need not make yourself like them. If you remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

So thoroughly false a report, coming from a paper of the standing of the Advertiser, needs something more than a mere denial. In regard to the admission of women, both the Faculty and the Corporation are decidedly opposed to any such innovation. The experiment of the co-education of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

WE have made arrangements by which we shall be able to publish hereafter in every issue a statement of the progress made by the candidates for the University crew. The candidates are being worked, to a large extent, according to the principles laid down in Woodgate's "Rowing Manual," and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/12/1877 | See Source »