Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...full meaning dawned upon us a heartfelt sigh of relief ascended to Heaven. For years, in common with other members of the journalistic profession, the editors of the CRIMSON have been troubled with extreme bashfulness! Here at last is a remedy, by simply deceiving some fair one into standing beneath this emblem of osculation, "he has a right, etc.," for do not the directions say so? It is also pleasant to be reminded that "the custom of kissing still exists." We, in our editorial loneliness, had almost forgotten this once well known fact. But why the CRIMSON, in preference...
Then glancing at the prostrate wielders of the mighty pen, he wiped a tear from his eye, and with drooping wings went out into the night. He left his card in the punch bowl, and beneath his name was scribbled: "Will call again, when you feel better, to see why you don't puff our last number...
...look away from Cambridge, and give ourselves wholly to the quest of learning, wholly to the control of reason. Love, home, turkey away! What has the Harvard man to do with you? He is a student, nothing less; he has no time to give to you. Thanksgiving pleasures are beneath him; Thanksgiving joys are the amusements of his infancy. Pleasures, joys, all begone! Come, learning and wisdom...
...admonition. No longer can a student depend for mural decoration upon the attractive cards issued by the faculty. No "prayer" or other warning shall steal upon a man and cast a temporary gloom over his existence. But, after we have been lulled into indifference of the faculty dynamite stored beneath us, suddenly the explosion comes and we are landed, much to our surprise, within dangerous proximity - to special probation. We can think of no reason for this change other than a desire to save much extra work at the office - a laudable desire, to be sure, but the same result...
...mind. There are men who take pride in saying that they have never seen the inside of the library; from these men, freshmen, coming from the restrictions of school life and imagining that the freedom of the Harvard system means a license for laziness, learn to consider it beneath their dignity to study. They believe that the library alcoves are the haunts of men whose shoulders are stooped and whose eyes are dimmed by a continued perusal of dismal texts. One should not sate himself with too much library but a judicious use of this advantage, among the many others...