Word: among
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...around the tree is the dust and shouting raised by the rush of the lower classes, - the sole remaining sign at Harvard of the enmity which is proverbially connected with the name of Sophomores and Freshmen. Although the abolishing of hazing is not so universally considered an unmixed good among either alumni or undergraduates as the college papers have represented, still the fact that hazing and the kindred practice of rushing have become customs of the past would justify the Seniors, should they see fit, to forbid the rush of the Sophomores and Freshmen on Class...
...have been requested by the officers of the College Telegraph Company to correct an erroneous impression which seems to prevail among the lower classes respecting this company. As its roll of membership is at present entirely made up (with one exception) of Juniors, the report has been circulated and generally believed among the lower classes, that the company has become a class affair...
Whether this popular hatred of anything which savors of oligarchy is or is not desirable depends upon the object of the class elections. If this object is to elect the men who may at the moment chance to be most popular or most widely known among their classmates, the purely democratic elections which we have this season witnessed attain it with comparative certainty. If, on the other hand, the object is to elect to each office the person best calculated to fill it with credit, it is by no means so certain that democracy should be the leading characteristic...
...body of men, varying in numbers between one hundred and fifty and two hundred, enter college together. For the most part they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them from forming one great circle of friends. They cannot but separate into cliques, more or less distinct; and they cannot in four years become so completely familiar with the character of every classmate that they can unhesitatingly declare that a certain man is best fitted to hold a certain office...
...certificate of the possession of certain qualities which tend to fit a man for a prominent position. The members of these societies are elected with great care, and usually with great deliberation. Each class admits from the class which follows a few men, chosen with care from among the entire body of their classmates. These few men meet together from time to time, and elect others from their own class to join them, forming in the end a carefully chosen body, which will include, on the whole, the most prominent and the most deservedly prominent men in their class. Every...