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What first led you to think of going to college? Mention the time and age of entering. Mention any difficulties you encountered in getting your education. Were you absent during your college course? Why? Where...
...Paris; London and Washington to prevent the perpetration of wrongs upon an innocent people, and to secure such advantages of treaties or trade as might be secured from any civilized government willing to enter upon a venture in the greatest of the African islands. It would be idle to think that this embassy will give new life or new directions to American commerce. On the other hand, the Malagassy gentlemen about to visit Boston are not merely barbarians stranded on a foreign shore, but men of rank, one of whom is likely to become the prime minister of all Madagascar...
...Arnold writes, "and have always drunk wine - chiefly claret. As to the use of wine, I can only speak for myself. Of course, there is the danger of excess; but a healthy nature and the power of self-control being pre-supposed, one can hardly do better, I should think, than 'follow nature' as to what one drinks and its times and quantity. I suppose most young people could do as much without wine as with it. Real brain work of itself, I think, upsets the worker and makes him bilious; wine will not cure this, nor will abstaining from...
...substance of the complaint I can only say that I got my first subscription to the class fund in March, and still found time to see every member of the class before commencement day. I do not think that class secretaries usually begin this part of their work very much before this time. Our fund was a large one, and there is no reason yet why '83's should not be as large...
...change of activity is in itself rest. The Indians when tired of walking rest themselves by running. This principle is too often disregarded by students and by men who are training for any particular object. Boating men many times fail to recognize the importance of general training but think their whole duty lies in the direct exercise of rowing or in absolute rest. The value of indirect training is not to be over-estimated. It is noticeable that men, who do not devote themselves exclusively to one branch of training but aim at a general physical development, often excel...