Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tree, it is claimed, would not be that the free, rollicking, glorious creature we know as the Harvard student has become a cynic, mounted on the hobby horse of "indifference," or a prig prating of "the true, the beautiful, and the good," both too superior to the common joys and sorrows of humanity to indulge in a hearty social frolic. On the contrary, the discontinuance of this ceremony would indicate the rise of an increased self-respect among the students which had made the role of rowdy unwelcome...
...questions of the greatest importance in regard to intercollegiate rowing decided according to the expense they involve, rather than the advantages or disadvantages they would cause; we must suffer the minority of the college world to drag the majority along by the nose; we must subscribe to measures which common-sense tells us are absurd; or we must leave the Association. The question is now, Which of these evils is the less? The Executive Committee, upon the advice of our delegates to the late convention, have decided to call a meeting of all the members...
...York Sun. The reputation which attaches itself to such reports is, however, anything but creditable to the College, and it is to be hoped that the thoughtless students who so disgraced the name of Harvard a few weeks ago will hereafter restrain their pranks within the bounds of common decency...
...Freshman class at Hamilton has "bolted" - i. e. refused to attend college exercise - on account of the suspension of two of its members. This proceeding appears to have been quite common at Hamilton, and the Faculty are disinclined to yield. At the same time, they seem unwilling to expel the whole class, and matters are in a thoroughly unsettled condition...
...though our common path must...