Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time, his own opinion of himself becomes exalted. He is a Harvard student and a great man. He feels this keenly, and the consciousness is apt to generate the disagreeable quality which was once known as "cockiness," but which now has no name since the abolition of the Sophomore censorship. Was not the development of these traits in some degree checked by the custom of hazing? If the Freshman felt inclined to turn his newly acquired liberty into license, was it not a wholesome reminder of his days of innocence, when the party of Sophomores visited him, made him read...
...talks as they do not talk, or does things to them not "correct," or that his coat is of a different color and cut. If the application of the reforming influence could be restrained to cases needing just this mode of treatment, it would be well; but is this censorship of witty students always discriminating in the objects of its attack? It is the peculiarity in a man most open to laughable roughing, not the one most deserving it, that receives the greatest share of this kind of criticism. It has come to such a pass that a timid...