Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vote of the Board and the pledge of the undergraduates together show the relation between the students and the Faculty as it should be-each considering the feelings and interests of the other and both working together in confidence and harmony for the common welfare. The old idea that students and Faculty were natural enemies has long since disappeared; and in its place has been developed the more rational idea of mutual dependence and helpfulness. The sooner the division line between the two bodies entirely disappears and they become one united body working for a common end the better...
...college as a whole that there should be an infirmary. Moreover, the thought that fellow students are sick and in suffering, and lack the necessary comforts and treatment should be intolerable to every college man. For those men who do not feel the bonds and obligations of a common life and common fellowship in a seat of learning the gates are closed on the fulness and largeness of life...
...Cavaliers made the reputation of Virginia, and from them many of our most distinguished families have traced their descent. Sir William Berkeley, a Royalist of the Royalists, was elected governor. After the Restoration his government became tyrannical in the extreme. An aristocrat himself, he had no sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having in 1660 got an assembly to his liking, he did not dissolve it for sixteen years. The effect of this abuse was to drive many Cavaliers to oppose Berkeley...
...very frequency of these lectures no doubt leads us to look upon them as events of common occurrence and to take little note of them, thinking in a hazy sort of way that they are a part of the college course which we are not following. They should not be neglected, however. Few of us will have the opportunity in after life of hearing men of such repute as Dr. Doerpfeld, Dr. Fiske, and Professor Allen...
...course led from the Gymnasium through Cambridge Common to Mt. Auburn St., thence around the cemetery and back to the Gymnasium, about six miles. The first six hares to finish were D. Grant M. S, E. A. Starbuck '98, R. E. Swezey 3L., A. B. Ruhl '99, W. C. Burton '99, and J. F. Downey sS. The first three men will receive prizes, all having finished within twelve minutes...