Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...persistently out of the fashion is not apt to be popular. Now, very unfortunately, study is horribly out of fashion; and if you want to command the regard of your Freshman classmates, you must endeavor to make them believe that you only work when you have nothing better to do. You must never allow yourself to openly sacrifice pleasure to duty. The truth is, that any American is provoked by the presence of a person who is in any way his superior; and if you hint to your classmates that you are walking away from them on the rank-list...
...same time, if you do not talk about studying, it is not probable that they will trouble themselves enough about you to discover that you are working hard; and as long as you are not caught at it, the more work you do, the better. There is a rather popular theory at college, that all exertion ought to come under the same head. Study and gravel-digging are both dubbed "work," and work of any sort is thought "ungentlemanly," - a horrid word, by the way, which you ought never to use. A man who is always ready for everything, however...
...smoking, talking small gossip, and playing occasional games of poker for undergraduate stakes. And you will not find it difficult to pass most of your mornings in a way which will secure the favor of the Faculty. If any popular movement is on foot, you had better throw aside your work for the time being, and take part in it. But in ordinary times you will find that your evenings will give your classmates quite as much of your company as they will be apt to want, and will, very probably, give you rather too much of theirs. Evenings ought...
...attention to. That this desirable object may be attained we invite every one to express his view, and we promise to give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions or the processes of reasoning adopted by any of our correspondents this week cannot do better than to tell us all what they think. Then from many plans we may select the best, and the crimson next summer may possibly come up ahead of the blue...
...F.THE Princetonian has reached the third number of its first volume, and as college papers go it may be called good. The editorial department might be decidedly improved. The editorials abound in what is called on daily papers "swashy writing." Many words are used to say what might much better be said in a few; and the words themselves are not all free from objection. Unless we are much mistaken, they will not find in either Webster or Worcester such a verb as "to inevitate" nor is the word sanctioned by any usage good or bad. But the Princetonian tells...