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...points are all childish and badly taken. He makes nothing but general statements, which are in the power of any individual to make in support of any charge, however ludicrous. What right for instance has he to assume that the men who draw for rooms do not act in good faith? Does he suppose that every man is willing to perjure himself with the readiness with which he seems to be so familiar...
...story is told in the Harvard Lyceum (1810) of a debate on the question whether an "intemperate use of tobacco or of ardent liquors were the more pernicious?" After a long and acrimonious dispute, the votary of Bacchus gained the victory by adducing the testimony of Scripture in support of his assertions : "Are we not told," said he, "that 'it is not that which goeth into the mouth which defileth a man, but that which cometh out of his mouth, this defileth...
Great surprise was occasioned by the announcement that a certain prominent book-seller of Cambridge, frightened at the brilliant prospects of the Co-operative Association, has betaken himself to intimidating his fellow-tradesmen. This man has threatened the most dire evils to Cambridge merchants who shall support or aid in any way the attempts of the students to assist themselves in the matter of purchases. "I will arouse," said he, "such a powerful public sentiment against the thing that any merchant who aids these fellows will regret it." There is no man in Cambridge who has made as much money...
...could be induced to be present. The rising young men and women were invited and were sometimes allowed to read one of their own productions. At one time the great attraction was a certain scientific defender of Orthodoxy, whose quotations were apt to be as fabulous as his support of prohibition principles was stormy and inaccurate. The blue-eyed and vegetarian supporter of idealism would of times be present and gently insinuate that all these new ideas were to be found in Plato. Papers were read by the "big bugs" and discussed by the little ones, until in one winter...
...writes: "Princeton men have never been very enthusiastic on the subject of boating, but more interest is taken in it now than for several seasons past. This is shown both by the number of candidates training for the crew, and by the amount of the subscriptions pledged in their support." Its letter from Pennsylvania University, dated last Thursday, says: "The boating outlook here is decidedly flattering, and there are between thirty and forty men in regular training. The general feeling seems to be favorable to the acceptance of all challenges, so confident does everybody appear in the merit of this...