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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Liberty | 11/13/1922 | See Source »

...wish to point out to these inconsistent upholders of "proper decorum" that one wrong does not justify another. M. D. POTTER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/27/1920 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 6/4/1920 | See Source »

There is in the University one sanctuary where busting efficiency and blazing lights have not penetrated. In the Union library there are good books, staunch old friends that have proved their worth before generations; there are comfortable chairs into which one may sink deep in luxury, thoughtless of decorum; here one can cram the briar full of fragrant Virginian, light it with freedom and lie back in blissful serenity and ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OASIS | 3/27/1920 | See Source »

...before, only to be thrust back by a surprised and somewhat upset graduate board. The present venture seems to combine in better, certainly less vulnerable, degree the qualities of life and literature. The October number seeks to view and criticize the world within and without, yet with the decorum long considered proper to the University...

Author: By Kenneth JOHNSTON ., | Title: Reviewer Finds Monthly Improved | 10/5/1914 | See Source »

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