Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...branch in Cambridgeport. A freight-car bore a poster on which the figures '86 appeared in large characters as a heading, while below followed a pronunciamento beginning, "All men are created free and equal - except freshmen," and then giving a set of rules to govern the conduct of such, with decisive intimations as to what they must and must not do. On inquiry of the freight hands it was learned that the car came from Syracuse, N. Y., where there exists, we believe, an institution called Syracuse University...
...Harvard was compelled by the government to confer upon Butler her highest degree of nobility. With true Attic astuteness the venerable university enacted a law making her degrees revocable and had him by the hair; for, on the evening of commencement, she revoked his LL. D. for disorderly conduct in the yard...
...several months. But as Mr. Forney may always be considered a well-wisher of the college world his words deserve notice. He has a good word to say for the college press: "It is pleasant," he says, "to see that the college papers so far from defending the ill conduct of students, invariably condemn it in unmeasured terms. One would suppose that the students so censured by their own companions would guard their manners rather better." Mr. Forney then proceeds to advocate the establishment of an organization, among the students of each college, which by quiet discussion shall prevent those...
...college papers is concerned, we deny the charge of falsehood and malice, not only for the publications of Harvard but for those of other colleges. However much we may desire to be "men," as the Spirit puts it, we hope never to imitate the majority of "men" in their conduct of newspapers. We think that almost any Eastern college paper will contrast favorably in its tone with the ordinary political newspapers; and to point out what sort of journalists Harvard students make we need only point to such papers as the Boston Advertiser and The Nation, whose staffs are largely...
...report was circulated Tuesday in New Haven that the editor of one of the Yale College literary papers had been challenged to mortal combat by one of the students who was arrested a few evenings since for disorderly conduct at the firemen's ball. The reason given was that the editor had written an editorial which stated that it was unfortunate that the college should be disgraced by the acts of half a dozen disorderly students. The editor denies the story...