Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...event in the outside world could more nearly affect our community than the terrible ocean disaster just reported from the other side, where the survivors from the "Ville du Havre" have arrived to tell their sad story. European travel has become of late so common that the first-class steamers on all the lines rarely sail without a full complement of passengers, including America's best and most respected citizens. Such is the regularity of our steamship communication with Europe that the formerly much-dreaded dangers of the sea are almost overlooked, till some such accident as the present warns...
...whole matter loses its interest when one feels that it does not particularly affect him; that everything, even down to the term-bill, has been carefully provided for, so that any solicitude on his part would be superfluous...
...sensible of the weakness of its own position seems to be shown by the irrelevant nature of some of its articles; one, for instance, being devoted to ridiculing the "Bones Initiation," of which the writer evidently knows very little, and which cannot, as far as we can see, affect the well-being of the college. The charge of favoritism on the part of the Faculty towards "Bones" men is a more serious one; of its truth we, of course, have no means of judging...