Word: boast
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FIRST catch your judges and assort them carefully. Pick out some plump and tender specimens, and mix with them a few thin and tough ones. If possible, have one or more of them boast that he knows nothing about speaking. Next proceed to make a small hole in the skull of each judge and draw out his brains. They are now ready for use. Place them under a slow gas fire from the speakers for two hours or more, and then remove them to another apartment. Plunge them at once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper...
THERE are now nine universities in Russia. They cannot boast of great antiquity, for in Russia proper there was no university until the middle of the eighteenth century, when one was founded at Moscow by the Empress Elizabeth...
...writer's reason for considering this an evil, - that the Harvard honors will degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes of "small-sized colleges." Even if this were true, it would be a valid objection only if the purpose of honors were to furnish a subject for undergraduate boast; but, as a fact, they have a definite and much more sensible work to do, - they are intended to furnish inducements to study. And the question is not whether the new honors are in themselves more or less valuable, but whether they are better fitted to encourage study. The writer...
After that, who dare boast of the inscription in Memorial Hall...
...themselves by keeping the fact prominently in view that they are held unworthy of gentlemen, because some persons in college do not feel that this is much of an objection. But we can at least make men prefer to keep their misdoings secret rather than have the effrontery to boast of them publicly. This is a much more wholesome tone, and one that will do something toward stopping the evils themselves. To parade one's own vicious acts shows either a very childish or else a very debauched frame of mind. It is, then, the duty of those who would...