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Beyond doubt it will be a long time before a few hundred or a thousand human beings will be able to come together for any such high aim as searching after knowledge, without having all the unpleasant elements of a lower life thrust upon them. In these days to study is not only to study, but to grow unpleasantly wise in the ways of the world. The Harvard college yard was not laid out for the sportive Cambridge youth; the college itself was not founded that merchants and dealers might make fortunes; and above all, the college buildings were...
...college in the United States has a more liberal tendency regarding religion than our own. Harvard does less at the present day to thrust any particular belief on the students than any foreign or indigenous institution of its kind. But the unfortunate reputation acquired in some past decade still clings vigorously in the minds of many, minds that must be either narrow or willfully ignorant. The services in the college chapel are of so unsec tarian a nature that any regular attender would soon see how absurd is the idea that brands Harvard as a "Unitarian college." A true view...
...afford to pay for in a supplement that we give to our subscribers. There is, however, a very strong argument in favor of our Supplement. Our paper is a newspaper, and is read by everyone-students, faculty, and annex. An essay that appears in our Supplement is thereby thrust upon the notice of every one in college. Men read it who could not be induced to subscribe to a literary monthly. And the writer, instead of having a reading public of 150 or 200 (for that, judging by past experience and some present experience, would be about the circulation...
Suddenly, chancing to look over towards one of the windows during an unusually sharp blast of the sleet outside, I saw a face peering through the pane. I could not jump,-for lack of salutatory machinery,-but a thrill went through me It was my own face. It was thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...
...wonder that. with such lack of variety of nutrition, sore boils broke out on them, until we heard of one man who had seventy-three. No I wonder that men could not sleep, and getting up at midnight and faithful to their orders not to slake their burning thrust, would bathe their heads and necks for the relief it brought...