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...ourselves enlightened have here only the St. Paul's Society, the Society of Christian Brethren, and the Y X. The first and foremost need in Cambridge is some association representing the other side of this morality question. We incline altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called "The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice," or "The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates," ought to be established before we become too wedded to our rut. I should recommend that the active members of this society should...
Daisy is sober and staid he knows...
...much better to be moderate in business and study, as in other things! We might well copy, in this respect, the more staid and phlegmatic English and Germans; to be sure, these have their faults, but the most certain way to gain any end is by a safe and thoughtful process, rather than by a violent, hasty action; and the straightest path to success in study is not by excessive application, but by a judicious and reasonable division of one's time between diligence and diversion...
...team which he is sure cannot be excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits, besides his own regular and legitimate calling, undertaken less for pleasure than for notoriety, he has succeeded in producing upon the staid plodding men of our day an impression like that of the meteor, - his own guiding star...