Word: breach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would the fresh freshman like it if he, entering a public building, filled with a large number of people, and committing a slight breach of etiquette through ignorance, should be saluted by the audience with a lively stamping. Feelings such as he would doubtless experience in such a situation must have been experienced yesterday noon, by the party of middle aged ladies and gentlemen who visited Memorial Hall at the lunch hour. And all because the gentlemen of the party were ignorant of the rules of the hall, and did not remove their hats. The stamping which greeted them...
...communication in another column in regard to the senior class transparency deserves the consideration of every member of the class. The writer disapproves of the decision of the class to carry its vote, unfavorable to the Republican candidate, on a transparency in the parade, as a breach of hospitality to the republican party. In our opinion, by far too serious a view of the question has been taken. It is unnecessary to repeat what has so often been remarked, that the students, as shown by the burlesque costumes worn in former years, regard the whole parade as a lark, Each...
...other point must be noticed. Complaint has been made that students, during library hours, carry reference books out of the library. Of course such action can only be characterized as contemptible, for it involves a breach of honor. We forbear to comment on it further than to say that every one found guilty of it ought to be forbidden the use of the library entirely, for he has shown himself incapable of properly using the privileges he enjoys...
First. That it would be a breach of an old custom not to march with the Republicans...
...fact that certain men are playing on the courts now under the control of the tennis association, without having paid their regular dues for this privilege. We are disposed to believe that all such are guilty merely of a piece of forgetfulness ; yet the practice is such an obvious breach of honor with all the members of the association, that we trust it may be put an end to at once...