Word: breach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recess, like other Christmas joys, is now but a memory of a pleasant past. The call "once more to the breach, dear friends" comes upon us, to waken us from the dream-like reality of our vacation. So absorbed had we become in scenes in other places, other duties and other pleasures, that Cambridge and the semis had almost vanished. It was necessary to rub our eyes to appreciate the reality of dormitory, yard and sanctum. The loneliness, mud, and utter confusion reigning in these places respectively were evidences, alas prima facie, that Christmas vacation has wrought changes only...
...fair sex as progressive euchre. The appearance of the contestants was awaited with great eagerness. At last they came, and were greeted by generous applause. But not a college cheer was heard; for such an undignified manifestation of approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum. But the players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most...
...students in courses in Philosophy and History in which much outside reading is required, have been exasperated beyond all reasonable limit of endurance by the custom, which has become quite prevalent, of taking reserved books from the library on unlimited and unrecorded leases. Those who are guilty of this breach of fairness are without doubt thoughtless of the rights of others, rather than deliberate disturbers of the college peace. Thoughtlessness, however, is no excuse. Protests have been made so that now everyone must know that he is committing a theft when he deprives others of rights belonging...
...respectable, there is no remedy. Volumes of mandates from faculties, armies of proctors will not stop it, if students themselves do not come to the rescue. Indeed, severe measures and elaborate plans for watching the students in examination rooms will only increase the evil by causing a wider breach between examiners and the examined. When college authorities realize that the true student is working for his own good, is his own agent in a life work, and try to urge him on by inciting nobler ambitions, and do not regard him as a machine which has no motive power...
...rate of duty. The condition of the laborers in these industries is very bad, and from them have arisen the complaints which have brought into such prominence of late years, the "Labor Question." Foreign immigrants with their pernicious ideas of state help and socialism have helped to widen the breach between laborers and capitalists, and as long as these weak protected industries exist, we can have nothing to expect but dissatisfaction and even threats of violence on the part of the laborers who do not know the real cause of the uncertain returns in the industries in which they...