Word: errand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principles of such men as Dante of great value in deprovincializing our minds. Its guidance in politics may save the huge baggage wagon of human progress from many a sorry jolt and sometimes even from such a total overturn as that of the French Revolution. Montaigne's unconscious errand was not to break away from tradition, but to show that the past was even more valuable in certain ways as contrast than as example. In literature, the ability to make such contrasts is of incalculable advantage, nay, of prime necessity in acquiring breadth of view, and in defining our impressions...
...supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable out-of-the-way houses on the side streets, not in attractive palaces, on the highway. Then I can feel that when I send my boy on an errand he will not be tempted to stop at every corner to see what the brilliant lights and crowds of a saloon mean. On the question of suppressing the open bar all parties should unite...
...hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with his hat on; or have it on in a senior's room, or in his own if a senior were there. All fresmen were obliged to run on errands at any time except in study hours or after nine in the evening. When on an errand he could make no unnecessary delay, neglect to make due return, or go away until dismissed by the person who sent...
...their studies. If any rum or brandy was found in a student's room it was to be taken away and disposed of by the president and tutors. Besides imposing fines the immediate government might at its discretion, punish the undergraduates by boxing. For sending a freshman on an errand in study hours the fine was twenty cents. For tardiness at prayers the fine was two cents...