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...nine, but it is safe to say that every effort towards success will be made by the individual members of the team, which, backed up by the good will and enthusiasm of the college, ought to go a long way towards the desired goal. The enthusiasm is sure to come, as any one who witnessed the wild celebrations of last spring will testify, but what we want is to see this enthusiasm exhibited a little earlier in the season...
There is an old proverb that "charity begins at home." It the President would only look around at the poor Harvard students who have been here year after year, and yet know him only through the newspaper reports of what he is doing elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...
...dignity around even a fool. Yet his sorrows are much aggravated by various causes-among others a natural fear taking root in his mind that perhaps he would be condemned to Hell on his death. He speaks of "the want of absolute certainly of being happy after death, the sure prospect of which is frightful." And for a year he is the picture of woe and gloom...
...corners. Marbles and vases, gems and intaglios, represented the civilization of Greece and Rome. Knickknacks and curiosities from foreign lands lay scattered with studied carelessness among the books. The library was all that a man of letters could desire. I rubbed my eyes that I might be sure that I was not asleep. "O, that this were mine!" I whispered to myself. My companion heard. "And so are these your highest dreams of life?" he asked. "Listen, my friend," he continued. "He who dwells here is one of a class of men who regard themselves as forming the highest society...
...paid last year were not part of the actual running expenses for 1883 84, they, nevertheless, were a most important item in the expenses to be met that year, and when counted, bring the total to $6745. This last item of overdue bills is an extraordinary one to be sure, but must be met, unless we are to keep always in debt, a state of things which no one would desire to see. The average for Yale crews is, we still think, less than ours. We have learned from a careful examination that the figures given for the Yale crew...