Word: delusional
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P. B. Potter '14, first scholar of the Senior class urged the freshmen not to overlook scholarship as one of the great activities. Let not hard work discourage, for everything calls for hard work. The belief that scholarship necessitates a hermit's life is a delusion and absolutely discredited. To...
When H. T. Parker '90 finally attacks the paper for its use of "a preposterously large type," for ample paragraphing, and for "daily wasting inch after inch of space," we suppose he is under a delusion that blank spacing is one of the items of expense in editing a daily...
A very general fallacy among undergraduates is that the A men of the Law School are not, for the most part, those who have achieved distinction in studies while in College, but rather those who, either through indolence or because-they were engaged in other activities, averaged a C, or...
It is useless to refute the idea that the actor's calling offers more temptations to loafers than any other profession. But it is equally fallacious to think that the actor's life is one sequence of success. There exists in this art the same discouragement known to all professions...
William Scollay Whitwell '03, left Cambridge on the night of Thursday, February 26, and has not been definitely heard of since. He wrote a note saying that he was under a temporary fit of mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit...