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...failing interest of the educated classes in politics, and much has been done, though more remains. The outcry against corruption has roused many citizens to a consciousness of their duties and to some spasmodic efforts to perform them, but in a few years they will turn over and take another nap until corruption has again reached its maximum. Something, therefore, must be done that will produce more lasting effects. It should be a part of every intelligent man's education to be taught to take an interest in politics, and it certainly should not be difficult to arouse such...
That a course in New Philosophy would take advantage of what enthusiasm there is here, and so utilize it that it should increase rather than, as now, decrease, cannot be a matter of serious doubt...
...hope that the University will not pick its substitute from the Freshman crew. By so doing, they would cause the chances of the Freshmen to be put in great risk; and both crews, instead of one, would be compelled at the last moment to take on substitutes, thus doubling our risks at the regatta. There ought to be, and are, we think, other upper-classmen here who could safely fill the position of substitutes on the University. The only consideration that should lead the University to choose substitutes from the Freshman crew is that of the most imperative and absolute...
...General looked at me for a moment in silent and misanthropic sadness; then he remarked, "Young man, take a drink." His conversation, by the way, was garnished with hiccoughs. I declined the drink with thanks...
...room; then he took his cigar out of his mouth and spat upon the floor; then, having replaced the stump, he staggered down the whole length of the table, and lurched into a chair at the other end of the room; and then, at last, he saw fit to take off his hat, which he threw to a table near him. Having taken his seat, he stared at the company for a while, expectorated a second time, and finally, calling the waiter, remarked "Brandy!" in a voice whose twang rivalled that of the most decrepit old piano...