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EVEN as early as this many of us are wondering what we shall do during the next summer, and, like wise men, we decide generally to let things take their own course, and if then nothing turns up, to go to some place where we have enjoyed ourselves before, and where we are sure to meet old friends and live the same old times over again. The fear of passing an unpleasant summer, or of incurring great expense, prevents many from trying some new ground for their summer's enjoyment. To be sure, summer boarding-houses in the country...
...Then Lighthead stood abashed, but presently the good Spirit of Knowledge came to him and whispered, "Knock, and it shall be opened." So Lighthead knocked, but it was not opened unto him. Then was he disconsolate, and descending the stairs two men met him. One was called Worldly Wise, - he wore a beaver hat, and a stick; the other, named Sloth, was likewise garmented. "Pray, sirs," quoth he, "where can I register my name among those who are blessed?" Worldly Wise, with an ill-hidden smile of scorn, replied, "Don't register at all." "Nay, but I must," the hero...
...journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often up the hill Difficulty, bristling with unfavorable conditions, but he never reached its summit; for, ere he had passed four years with his chosen band of Vanity Fair, the rulers of that mart, who call themselves wise men, chased him away. And Lighthead left that pleasant oasis, unburdened with knowledge, and went out into the wilderness of the world. And he now abideth in the place Chelsea, over against Lynn...
...remedies for sea-sickness, and will come in very well, no doubt. If two of your friends happen to get together and talk in an undertone about college matters, though you hear all they say, you must be apparently only minding the helm. A week's sailing in this wise, with no stint in the beverages named above, will infallibly bring you into the "second ten," and as then you will be a made man, and I only intended to give you advice for Freshman year, I will close for the present...
...pleasant to those against whom it is uttered, for no one likes to be told that he ought to be a jail-bird, even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless. Hence I beg leave to ask such collegians at Cambridge as think it wise to have the historic name of "Harvard" publicly championed upon the water by her youngest and greenest representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing...