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...thoroughly disapprove a recent article in the Lampoon, the moral of which was that we should all cheat did we not cower before threatened rustication. The tone of the paper is of course not serious, but such a treatment of the subject even in mocking vein is to be avoided as dangerous and apt to mislead. Were such a sentiment prevalent, we have no doubt that cheating would tend to become more instead of less common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS CRIBBING TOLERATED? | 6/7/1909 | See Source »

Leaving the places where all day they cower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDNIGHT. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

...make poor men beneath you cower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE GRAY SISTERS. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

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