Word: ets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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French Reading. Aucassin et Nicolette. Prof. Cohn, Sever...
French Readings. Aucassin et Nicolette, translation. Professor Cohn, Sever...
...takes; what it can destroy, it destroys; what does not suit its degraded taste it very soon tones down to that taste by its own peculiar processes. And so property is stolen, doors are marred and smeared hallways are - to put it mildly - littered, lights are turned out, et cetera, et cetera. In a word, this "objectionable element" is trying to place the red flannel banner of its famous legions, which has waved so triumphantly over the college grounds, on every dormitory in the yard. A crusade against these transgressors cannot be undertaken too promptly or too zealously...
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1886: Aucassin et Nicollete (translation), Asst. Prof. Cohn...
...that he is not even able to make it. The library is used, and we regret to say, abused also, - but here we are getting on to old theme of complaints, and as visions of petitions, of selfish and noisy men in the reading-room, and of electric lights, et cetera, et cetera, come upon us, we lay aside our pen, and permit ourselves for once, at least, to think of what the library is, not of what it might...