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...forth into the great world to earn your first dollar, and find that even the boy who dusts the office and kindles the fire and runs of errands is for the time at least more valued and more valuable than you; since he does some deed, even though it be a small one, well, while you are utterly inexperienced and unpractised! So smoke on, and dream on, and enjoy your glory while it lasts; for when you have departed from this charmed circle, it will have vanished forever...
...namely, because she rowed better and with more judgment. Why did Yale beat Harvard last year? For precisely the same reason. Nothing can be farther from me than to be personal in my remarks. The anguish of defeat is too great to be augmented by harsh words; but defeat, though unpalatable, is often salutary. Had Americans, and especially Harvard men, instead of deluding themselves with patriotic excuses, taken a wholesome lesson from their plucky and honorable defeat on the Thames, more silk flags would adorn to-day our Alma Mater...
...voted constantly for one set, it is deducible that another body voted constantly for the other set; and the same "irresistible conclusion" which may be drawn from one line of action may be drawn from the other. (The fact is, there was some changing of votes, and, disastrous though it be to these exclusive defenders of "intrinsic fitness," the truth must be told that it was from the Pudding candidates, and not to them...
...Advocate leaves its readers to infer that this unanimity in the case of the Pudding and its adherents was owing to the influence of personal acquaintance and friendship. Undoubtedly, that, or the expectation of it. Hostile though the intention may be, I am glad the Advocate denies the majority that basis of union. However productive of friendship the action of the Pi Eta was, there was yet a principle, in accordance with which non-society and society men directed their efforts. That principle was the mutual recognition of each other's rights, and the determination to maintain them...
...culture to me? I spend my time in playing cards for beer, and lately General Schenck has almost become my patron saint. 'Fine clothes and cigarette outside,' the writer in the Advocate says. There is one thing in my favor; I am not open to the fine-clothes charge, - though for a very good reason. But then I have smoked enough cigarettes to counterbalance that. I must reform. I will begin immediately." And I laid out plans for extensive readings on deep subjects, and determined to be a diligent searcher after truth...