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...which you lugged at much pains to the office in town to find it listed as "valueless". You might fool the bursar on that. Or the Webster's dictionary without a cover which looked like a first edition. The second hand book man said it was nothing of the sort and refused to take it if paid; but the authorities on Kirkland street wouldn't know the difference. Anyway, the scheme is worth a trial...
President Eliot asserted that each pupil should acquire some technical sort of skill, either with tools, with the fine arts, with music, or in domestic science. Every student, furthermore, ought to be carefully and certainly taught the means of resisting the evils to which we are exposed on the earth, "particularly those parts of it which we call civilized. These evils include not only pests and infections, but moral as well as physical dangers...
...Freshman Class this year consists of 879 men, as compared with 862 of last year; this slight increase is because of a stricter interpretation of the entrance requirements. Of this class, 700 were admitted without conditions of any sort, which sets a new scholastic standing for the entering class. The Sophomore Class is unusually large, however, since its registration is 533, which makes the College show an enrollment of 1184, or 142 more than a year ago. The Junior Class number 325, and the Senior Class...
...with what they are doing, what they plan to do afterward. If they think of what brought them there, it is likely to be of individual factors, of their own determination to get an education, or their parents. They experience usually a number of memorial celebrations of one sort or another. The difficulty with such celebrations is in making them reminders, not that men of not have been dead a certain number of years or that a college hall has reached a dignified age, but reminders of the thing in these men that made them worthy of remembrance...
...hears, these days, of individuals spending days, or weeks in a convict prison, involving a considerable amount of hardship, to receive, at the end of the period, a certain pecuniary' reward. In the past education could be compared to effort of this sort, but its modern version is more like a ride in a Pullman car, with only the fare to pay and a tip for the porter at the end of the journey. Of course, paying the fare is sometimes an inconvenience, but most things have to be paid for, even the unreturned shirts in last week's laundry...