Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubtless obtain much amusement at the expense of the successful or unsuccessful candidates. Our attention has been called to this and we would suggest that hereafter these trials be held only in the presence of members of the club. An audience of outsiders, however interested, can only serve to embarrass the candidates and hinder them from making their best efforts...
Continuing, the Mail and Express, seems to believe that the "liberalizing tendencies" and "optional system" have gone far enough. The movement has already been carried so far as to "embarrass the faculty in the arrangement of recitations, and to bewilder the student at the latitude of his possible selections," while at Harvard the unfortunate undergraduate is "practically turned out to grass, to nibble at his own sweet will." The Mail and Express, like a stern parent, suggests in the case of freshmen, that instead of placing the divining rod in the hand of that precious youth, it would be more...
...DAILY CRIMSON: - It has become a marked feature in one of the most important courses of Political Economy for certain men to raise all kinds of quibbles and side issues, which, in addition to the fact that they have no real bearing on the subject-matter of the hour, embarrass the instructor and take up the time of the class with needless discussion...
...having made arrangements for a reception and concert complimentary to the Princetion nine, would appeal to the students to prevent and suppress any demonstration contrary to the published regulations of the faculty. It is especially requested that no bombs, rockets or crackers be used, as their use will seriously embarrass the association and interfere with the arrangements...
...Laughlin delivered a very able and interesting lecture last night before a large audience, on "The Sub-Treasury System." The lecturer traced the growth of the present system from that formerly in vogue, and afterwards set forth in clear light the defects that now embarrass it. The undesirable relation of the Secretary of the Treasury with the money market, brought about by the act of 1864, in which it is enacted that the banks shall not be depositories for receipts for customs, and which, therefore, forces the treasury to hold in its vaults large amounts of specie, was discussed...