Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without that groove becomes the object of unmerciful badgering from his more conventional companions. They do not stop to ask whether their friend's conduct is not worthy rather of imitation and praise than of roughing; it is enough that he talks as they do not talk, or does things to them not "correct," or that his coat is of a different color and cut. If the application of the reforming influence could be restrained...
...reply. But when it happens that the charges against a man do not appear to be substantiated, then it is that the undergraduates are given to discussing the present system of penalties. There will probably no one be found who thinks that a man, even if caught in disorderly conduct at one end of the yard, should be held responsible for like occurrences at the other end, merely because they happened the same evening. No officer, when he detects a thief at one place, charges him with all the thefts that have occurred the same night. To be suspended with...
...every class there are twenty men at least well qualified and willing to conduct a paper, nor are the rest at all backward with either their money or their good wishes. There is no disparagement in saying that the Advocate does not cover the whole ground; indeed, it does not pretend to. The perception of these facts has induced the Editors of the Magenta to offer a new paper to their fellow-students. Its general plan is as follows...
...course this does not mean the immediate abolition of all restraints on students' time and conduct; but it is exceedingly important as being an official expression of the opinion that has been steadily gaining ground for several years past, both in college and out, that if students are to behave like men, they should be dealt with as men. There are doubts and prejudices in many minds tending to delay the desired changes in this direction, and these words will do much toward removing these obstacles...