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...both near and remote. What trains of thought will be roused by the news of its disappearance! Old men will recall the days, far away, when they crossed it, and will wonder at its endurance. Recent graduates will remember its signs of undoubted antiquity, and will laugh when they think of the disasters that it has caused passers-by; and I, - I shall cherish the recollection of its manifold virtues, and shall hold sacred the spot where...
...same time my powers of conversation were utterly insufficient to induce them to talk intelligently upon any subject that I could think of, other than college matters. And, as a matter of course, they resented the slightest difference of opinion, or, if they happened to be particularly amiable, they mercifully attributed it to the senile idiocy incident to my advanced years...
...idea, which is not absolutely demanded, in the least different from that which happens to be popular, let me do it now. You will at once be set down for either a bore or a fool, and you will find neither reputation to your advantage. You need not think with the rest of the world, but it does not pay to tell them that...
...sensible enough to keep it to themselves when it is not asked for. And this blessed few, when they find themselves in a company where shop must perforce be talked, are willing to talk your shop instead of their own. To mention names would be invidious, but I think that you will remember one or two people of this sort. And you ought to make it your business to imitate them...
...Hollis fire an officer of the College was heard to remark: "This is quite remarkable; we thought we were safe from fire." That occasion has demonstrated that we are not more safe from it than the rest of the human race, and it is therefore high time to think of rendering such a misfortune as little dangerous to life as possible...