Word: abstain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything - that they will...
...divulge their names. A method, however, which has stopped the practice in a leading college is both simpler and more reasonable than the two already suggested. It consists in the members of the two lower classes signing an agreement at the opening of the college year that they will abstain from all practices which are annoying to freshmen. Such a pledge, if wisely presented, would, without reluctance, be signed by every member of the sophomore and freshman classes. The college man has a keen and high regard for his honor, and his honor would forbid the breaking of his pledge...
...college of the progressive tendencies of Harvard should be the last to repeat the old stock complaint against college journals, that they are principally fault-finders and nurses of discontent. The better class of such papers certainly studiously endeavor to abstain from all complaining that is not likely to lead to anything better than mere fault-finding. Can it not fairly be said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside...