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...Take care not to live with men alone. Choose your friends with care; i. e. know people who will be of use to you, and try to make them think that you are of use to them. But don't let your snobbishness take the form of boasting of your own rank. If you are a gentleman, the whole world can see it; and if you are not, you had better not call attention to the fact. We are all snobs, you know. But our snobbishness differs as much as do our noses. The peculiar form of snobbishness which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...excellent condition of the club and the interest taken in rifle-shooting were shown by the large number of men who entered for the match. The weather has changed so decidedly during the week, that we hope for more satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match is not very distant. Although we do not believe in keeping up a sport on account of an expected contest, we trust that an intercollegiate contest will be brought about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...publish to-day another letter from a graduate upon the subject of our rowing interests. This letter is, in a measure, a supplement to the one we published in our last number. The position of the writers of these letters, the strong ground they take, and the interest they show in our boating welfare demand, we think, some public recognition from those who are to select and train our crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer. The captain of the crew does not, we believe, agree with the views expressed by our two correspondents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...upholder of moral principles (for in New Haven total abstinence seems to take the place of what is understood elsewhere as morality) then entreats the editors of the Lit. not to forget that "theirs is a literary magazine in a University, and not a brewer's journal in Milwaukee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »