Word: concealments
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...false modesty may deter a man from answering the questions asked him, but this is quite unreasonable; none of the questions are strictly personal in their nature, but inquire about facts known already to many persons, and that it would be simply pride or priggishness to attempt to conceal. Let us hope, then, that the Class of '75 will not fail of its duty in this regard, and may set an example to be followed by future undergraduates...
Seemed bent to hide what it could not conceal...
...direction are, that under no circumstances shall he be sent to the Colony of Connecticut for that purpose, lest in his youth he should imbibe that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, and which are so interwoven in their constitution that they cannot conceal it from the world, though many of them, under the sanctified garb of religion, have attempted to impose themselves upon the world as honest...
...President's office, - the seat of those Faculty meetings, which I could never help associating in my mind with the Eleusinian mysteries. It had always been my fondest desire to become an unnoticed witness of one of these meetings. Here was my chance. Could I not conceal myself, and thus witness all the proceedings of the august body? I was aware of the dangers of such an undertaking. Specials, suspensions, expulsion, all flashed on my mind; but youthful folly predominated, and I proceeded to conceal myself...
...undergraduate contributors, and to bespeak their support in the future. We have been pleased to notice increasing contributions from Freshmen, many of which, however, the character of the subject or the looseness of expression prevents us from publishing. A little more care in composition, in order not to conceal the real thought of an article under a multiplicity of words, would greatly improve the majority of Freshman contributions. Let them not think us ungrateful or hypercritical, but let them persevere in their kind efforts...