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...Though many important points have been definitely settled, the results of the Convention, taken as a whole, are hardly satisfactory to many of the colleges. The old dispute as to who are eligible for University crews is not settled any more fairly than it was before, to say nothing of the time wasted upon the useless discussion of unimportant points...
...times past (though, of course, there is no such thing now) there have been many students here, with generous hearts and long purses, who have bought everything they thought they wanted without asking the price, and have given to every beggar that called, simply to get rid of them...
...Though this is perhaps the most serious evil of their careless generosity, it is not nearly so vexatious as the daily calls of bejewelled purchasers of old clothes, clerical-looking venders of every useless article, and begging impostors who tramp up and down our stairs and hammer at our doors...
...this is only one case. We have all of us been as badly duped, though in some other way. I have not forgotten the noble tar with matted hair, who "had layed in the water thirty-six hours" (though his breath had such a West-Indian scent about it that I was inclined to believe he had told but half the truth), and wanted money to relieve a companion who had been there some hours longer. But after I had given him something to relieve his companion's sad circumstances, I had the mournful satisfaction of seeing said companion himself...
...though rain and storm the clouds were warning...