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...said Jack; "they 'II think you 've gone out to take something...
...think the cause of such a man's unpopularity is his disregard of the fact that there is a mean between servility and self-assertion. It is a tendency common in young men to take extremes. They seem to feel, in spite of the auream mediocritatem of Horace (who, by the by, knew more about the world than they do), that their sense of right will not admit of their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would...
...them chose a literary subject: political economy, philosophy, and history were well represented, and one or two men expressed a liking for fine-arts, but literature had no friends. Undoubtedly, many will see in this fact a defect in the instruction given in college; but we think that the reason lies not so much in the kind of instruction as in the tendency of the thought of to-day, -a tendency with which the choice of subjects coincides. One year's choice, however, is insufficient data from which to draw sure conclusions, especially as two of the five parts delivered...
...hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that in a future case even he, powerful conjurer though he be, must needs exert himself to introduce more blue and less crimson into his already falsely drawn picture. It does seem a little odd, now that we think of it, that "the eleven-men game was a concession originally to Harvard, made two years ago," when we recollect that two years ago, in the autumn of '75, We played Yale with fifteen men. It again seems a little odd that "she [Harvard] gave us no proper notification, official or otherwise...
...think it hardly necessary to mention that this splendid mathematical metaphor is from our friend the Boston Beacon...