Word: committing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...given. To find fault with giving a vacation after Easter, because Easter is an ecclesiastical institution, and Harvard is an unsectarian college, is almost as absurd as it would be to object to having a vacation at Christmas. Placing a vacation after Easter or at Christmas does not commit the Faculty to the recognition either of Easter or Christmas. These seasons are chosen as times of cheerfulness, when we shall find it pleasantest to be at home with our families...
...Undergraduates who fail in the duties, or commit the offences, pointed out in this chapter, incur fines as follows: For coming, after the exercises are begun, to daily prayers, two cents; for absence from prayers, without sufficient reason, three cents; for absence from church without sufficient reason, offered before the ringing of the second bell, and allowed by the President, or one of the professors or tutors, thirty-three cents...
...cherished. When the representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise a matter of considerable doubt. One of the societies, not to commit itself blindly, presented a plain statement of the manner in which they interpreted the intended working of the settlement, and made their acceptance of the terms depend upon the condition that assurances should be given that the rest of the class would do nothing to prevent the result they expected...
...this time of year, when the probabilities for the day are falling temperature, snow, and hour-examinations, I am much struck with the altered demeanor of my classmates (I am in the latter half of my course, but will not commit myself so far as to say that I am a Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing...
...plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous sin of wearing ulsters and smoking cigarettes, and whose moral character, as might be expected from an exterior so intensely vulgar, is flashy in the extreme, being chiefly made up of "impure thoughts," on what subjects we are not informed...