Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...watched the petty squabbles of the colleges in recent years. Harvard and Pennsylvania have come to an agreement that puts them in an unfailing relation to each other and the sooner all the colleges come to an understanding about athletic matters and reduce them to one common basis the better off we shall be. There is a spirit of manliness and generosity at the bottom of all intercollegiate relations, but it has often been smothered by jealousy and misunderstanding. Sooner or later this spirit must be supreme and the highest aim which our athletic men can have is to bring...
...year, when the final examinations are in full swing. We refer to the man who, not content with the privileges offered him by the library, is willing to sacrifice his own self respect and discommode his neighbor, by abusing these privileges to his utmost. It is a common occurrence when you wish to consult some reserved books in the departmental alcoves, to find some grasping individual in the same course comfortably seated with all the desirable volumes piled up before him, to be read at his convenience. Under these circumstances, even, it is very unpleasant to ask the gentleman...
...formation of a Roman Catholic Society last night was a natural result of the common bond of religious interests among a considerable portion of the students. We welcome it as we would welcome any religious organization. Is opportunities and its line of work is much the same as those of other societies of its kind. Its discouragements and obstacles will differ but little from theirs. If anything, they will be even greater because of the prejudice which so many bear to ward this particular denomination. And yet this very difficulty opens at once a field of work where much good...
...advancement of such interests as these students have in common, and the organization of such an international association of college and university students...
...University and each member of it should be treated as such. They may have no scruples against taking advantage of their relations to us to indulge in forms of play which would not be countenanced in our own teams, but this cannot release us from behaving as common courtesy and long established custom here at Harvard has taught us to behave. The true spirit here has been to look upon our competitors as honorable rivals, not as men to be hissed. Many have remarked on the unusual amount of hissing with which the crowds have expressed their dissatisfaction with...