Word: calling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That is only what people call me," he grumbled...
...they are connected with and dependent upon the students at large. have acted lately in a manner which is liable to criticism. Last fall the University was surprised to hear that we had challenged Harvard to a race next summer, and that a meeting had been called to ratify the challenge. One would naturally suppose that the students who bear the expense, and without whose money the race could not be accomplished, would have been consulted in the matter before the challenge was sent; but such a proceeding would not have been in accordance with the dignity which the Directors...
...attentive listening I found this to be the lamentation of a select body of young men (being all spoiled children, they call themselves the S. Poils Society) over the shortcomings of their fellow-men (cribbing, cutting, etc.). This was getting too depressing to stand. I was not a pessimist then, and had no sympathy with this idea of total degeneration. I endeavored to cheer up by warbling "Landlord, fill the flowing bowl," but, as I don't sing, the result was n't encouraging. Without a word of remonstrance I left the room...
...returned forensic to let him know what impression it has produced on the instructor, whether he considers it good, bad or indifferent. Now we have no fault to find with the present instructor, for he does all that anybody in his position could do, but we wish to call the attention of the Faculty to this matter, and ask them whether they do not think it would be worth while to have an instructor for forensics alone, instead of giving them to a professor who has plenty to do without them? Do they think it enough to require a certain...
ALLOW me to call attention to a new grievance in that fertile field of fault finding, the marking system. If an instructor is allowed to send warnings to students for cutting recitations in his elective, the privilege of voluntary recitations, for which the Junior class has to pay so dear, is practically abolished. Recitations are not really voluntary so long as there is a penalty of any sort for absence, and when an instructor, after finding a man absent for several recitations, sends him a notice that he is not likely to get through the course unless his attendance improves...