Word: cerberus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate is by far the most readable since the '90 board took charge of the paper. All of the articles are short, and most of them bright and entertaining. The first editorial discusses the new regulation in regard to registration. After condemning this rule as a possible "sop to Cerberus," the leader closes as follows: "We admit the principle of the resolution is indisputably correct, but we protest against it as rank injustice unless it be accompanied by longer recesses." The system of special reports is next criticised as "carried greatly to excess," so that many are crowded into...
...doubtful success. Without wishing to reflect at all upon the managers, for the lack of management displayed, we do desire to register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation to a few of the students, a sop to Cerberus, will not lull the students in general to overlook the inconveniences arising from the preparation of the gymnasium for general social purposes, the danger from a slippery floor, and the misplacement of apparatus. We do not wish to grumble, or seem unreasonable; we would simply uphold the old mixim...
There was a deal of humor in the cut on the faculty-student preliminary conference, that appeared in the current Lampoon. To many students, it doubtless seems that the proposed deliberative conference is little more than a "sop to Cerberus," and this opinion is, in some respects, well founded. It is not wise however, to pass too hasty a judgment on this proposed experiment. It is, without doubt, a firm opinion among the students, that some method, can be devised that will obviate the annual conflicts of faculty, athletic committee and students. It is felt by many that a radical...
...authorities, tired of being reminded that the lives of the students under their charge were in imminent danger in case of fire, had a trial of fire escapes to appease the clamors, then put staples in the rooms on the top stories, and, having thrown this sop to Cerberus, let the whole matter drop...
...most fittingly said, alas the old, but ever new, plan of throwing a sop to Cerberus, that "the personnel of the Cleveland procession will be very different from that of the Democratic procession of the past." But that was, really, a very unkind cut on the part of the Independents. We sympathize, however, most deeply with them in this matter. And then, too, the writer of the letter thinks that "the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will probably take part in the procession." Indeed ! Yet, having given this matter "early consideration" as was desired, we are led to move that...