Word: evens
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Bulwer the desire for effecting political ends is not so patent, if it exists at all, as in the works of D'Israeli and other novelists in public life. Society, and even history, are Bulwer's debtors...
...government he made a rude reply. But when it happens that the charges against a man do not appear to be substantiated, then it is that the undergraduates are given to discussing the present system of penalties. There will probably no one be found who thinks that a man, even if caught in disorderly conduct at one end of the yard, should be held responsible for like occurrences at the other end, merely because they happened the same evening. No officer, when he detects a thief at one place, charges him with all the thefts that have occurred the same...
...hard for any one so free from care as a College student, to cast aside the pleasant habit of indifference. Without even his own support to provide for, with no one dependent upon him, with few rules the breaking of which will entail any serious penalty, he gets to look at the outside world as something rather amusing, a little vulgar, and not at all connected with himself. There are, of course, the usual number of exceptions to prove the rule. We have, in embryo, doctors who sharply detect disease in the unconscious passer-by, who prefer the attractions...
...forced to acknowledge that it is what we ought to have expected from our own negligence, when we consider how far those who actually use the weed, and those to whom the presence of its smoke is not offensive, exceed in number the remaining classes. It is even to be doubted if, on careful consideration, we should have wished the vote to be otherwise: it would certainly have been unpleasant for us to give visitors, if any had happened in, the impression in regard to our habits which would have naturally followed from finding us buried in clouds of tobacco...
...less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form of conversation. The error will be detected sooner, and, as a rule, college men are too honorable to side with what they see to be unfair, even if it chimes with their prejudices...