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...Cambridge Press would perhaps do well to restrict its Harvard correspondent to sign-boards and other similar subjects that give a fair field for the exercise of his somewhat lively imagination; for his attempts to deal with facts are remarkable for brilliancy rather than accuracy, that is, if we can judge from the way in which he speaks of the "electric" system, and from the following Junior forensic subject, as given in the Press, - "Is the popular estimate of Micawber as the ideal historian erroneous...
...poor bargain if we exchange it for smoothness of intercourse. Witness our College, where certainly the tact alluded to in Holworthy's case is plentiful enough; no doubt that intercourse here is sufficiently oily, but is not the moral tone, or rather the absence of moral tone, somewhat juvenile? Certainly it is not characteristic of men to disregard morals; disregard of them is peculiar only to sots or very young men. Only when we free ourselves from these boyish views, and when we attain the moral courage to speak (i. e. when toadyism is dead), will there be manliness among...
...whole, I think it good enough for a law-student like myself. You see I did n't get my degree last year, and so now I am determined to rough it. To come to the point, I had always regarded the men who boarded here somewhat in the light of barbarians, but I was hardly prepared to find them sunk so deep in their barbarism. You will scarcely believe me, I imagine, when I tell you that at one table at my end of the Hall a regular debating society has been formed. Fierce discussions take place at breakfast...
...before half past eight. Last Sunday only three came before that hour. The Steward says that he would be perfectly willing to have the Sunday breakfast postponed half an hour if the boarders so desire. The principal difficulty would be with the Catholic help, whose church-going would be somewhat interfered with. The Directors strangely argue that the change would do no good, because men would come at the last minute, at half past nine, as they do now at nine. But this very thing would show that the late hour is desired, since so many men improve the extra...
...concert was opened at about a quarter before eight with the "Three Glasses," a rousing drinking-song, by Fischer. The sentiments expressed in this song were somewhat at variance with the surroundings, and it consequently was not as rapturously applauded as it might have been. "The Three Chafers" and "To the Bravest" were the only glees encored...