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Lay Morals

CHAPTER II--THE MODERN STUDENT CONSIDERED GENERALLY
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We are apostles of our own caste and our own subject of study, instead of being, as we should, true men and _loving_ students.

Of course both of these could be corrected by the students themselves; but this is nothing to the purpose: it is more important to ask whether the Senatus or the body of alumni could do nothing towards the growth of better feeling and wider sentiments.

Perhaps in another paper we may say something upon this head.
One other word, however, before we have done.

What shall we be when we grow really old?
Of yore, a man was thought to lay on restrictions and acquire new deadweight of mournful experience with every year, till he looked back on his youth as the very summer of impulse and freedom.

We please ourselves with thinking that it cannot be so with us.


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