Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sanctuary still remains, however, into which too evident efficiency, watchful attendants and blazing lights have not intruded. In the Union Library there are good books, new as well as old: there are comfortable chairs in which one may stretch out unhampered by decorum; books which are always in use at Widener can be found free here; and smoking is quite in order...
...fellow, stands a foot or so above the Prince, but this disharmony in sizes has not prevented a cordial fellowship. This is quite in line with the none too staid disposition of the heir to the British crown, a disposition which is said to distress and shock the great decorum of the royalty, aristocracy, middle class and working class of England...
...know, my dear Mr. Editor, that there will be those among the silly serious students who will think my program unduly generous. But, I ask, what avail the compunctions and decorum of five hundred students if a small but determined minority hold the balance between quiet and confusion in their power? There will be these, too, who say this is an attack upon personal liberty. I for one, stand for the autocracy of decorum. --HARRY REIFF '25. November...
...wish to point out to these inconsistent upholders of "proper decorum" that one wrong does not justify another. M. D. POTTER...
...their own eye, and the reply of whose champion is only in truth a corroboration of Dr. Eliot's criticisms. Instead of a crawling retort, let us frankly admit that we share the regret that an element among us does exist so lost to any sense of personal decorum that they constantly imperil the reputation of their chosen college and drag its fair name in the mire--only qualifying the admission by the demonstrable statement that the number of offenders is less than their apparent ubiquity might indicate. A. ALEXANDER ROBEY...