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...tenderly take from its nest...
...take pleasure in recording the generosity of a public-spirited Junior, who has offered to pay one tenth of the debt on the Reading-Room, if nine other men can be found to subscribe equal amounts...
...table or in the room. And so, I imagine, it is likely to be at Amherst, if much stress is laid on this question of drinking. Stolen pleasures are the sweetest, nor are they the ones in which moderation prevails. Besides, there is sometimes a sort of pride men take in being different from their associates; they boast of their deeper draughts or their broader principles. At Harvard, I am glad to say, such affectation is frowned upon...
After all the violent agitation of the temperance reformers, the most sanguine of them would scarcely say that of people who have acquired the habit of drinking, a tenth, or an approach to a tenth, consent to take the pledge. Even those who take it are not always faithful. The trouble is that by the pledge one motive only for abstaining is brought into play. It is assumed that even the most degraded, whose name has once been signed to a promise, will hesitate before he breaks that promise. Now in the majority of cases it is probable that...
...independent. A capable and intelligent man rarely remains a teacher, because he has few chances of advancement, and is almost sure to die of hunger. Consequently, capable men are not found in the corps of instructors. In regard to others, they are obliged, in order to live to take up other employments outside of their school. Thus they become frequently secretaries of the mayor, and on Sunday sing in the church. They are, therefore, under the surveillance of the mayor and dependent upon the cure. But what is still worse, the instruction itself is wholly at the discretion and subject...