Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next to his physiognomy a man's note-book is important in judging his character. There may be some who will not believe this; but they will be found to be the unobserving among us, those who lose the greatest benefit of a college course, knowledge of one's fellow...
The men who try their stylographic pens on the edges of their notes, write their names all over their books and indite doggerel to their female friends therein, all lay their trivial characters before us. Straws show which way the wind blows; study the men about you through their notes...
Notwithstanding the hardships suffered by many of the company, and their fierce struggles, first for existence and then for an education, the young socialists, old beyond their years and savage in their hatred of the existing order of things, showed among themselves a manly cordiality and a true convivial spirit...
These two examples will suffice to give an idea of the previous life of many of the students. The Germans and Russians were the ablest men of the party in the Convictorium, and evinced an extended knowledge of the writers on political science. One characteristic of these student socialists which...
"This evening (Sept. 30, 1860) is the anniversary for the foot-ball fight between freshmen and other under-graduates; but the contest has grown so savage of late years that the faculty voted, July 2, to prohibit the encounter to night, and the undergraduates decided to have a closing service...