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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...official dealings with them have ever been marked with consideration and courtesy. He has ever displayed a real interest in their welfare that has not failed to make itself felt. Student nature is much less demonstrative in its likes than in its dislikes. While it never hesitates to give expression, through the indirect but effective means of satire, to its disapproval of men or measures, it is always rather backward in making any active demonstration of its regard, even though this regard be most sincere. In short, the student delights in raillery, but is averse to sentiment. As a natural...
Resolved, That we, the members of the Harvard chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity desire to express our sorrow for his loss, and our sympathy with his bereaved family and friends...
...frightened would but faintly express it. I was utterly unnerved. The impulse was to turn and fly. But a sense of shame held us still; we were two, and men; and besides, it was better to have the thing before our eyes than behind our backs. Ugh! I saw Jackson mechanically draw his revolver from his belt. I would have stopped him, but I could not : my hands and tongue were as if tied. He raised the pistol, aimed it with shaking hand, and fired. The smoke cleared away, and Jackson fell back on me, fainting. Oh, horrors! the bullet...
...what little good it would do is offset by another regulation concerning excuses which goes into effect with it. The present Senior Board of the Princetonian sever their connection with the paper with this number. They end their labors with a pretty little dying speech, in which they express their satisfaction with themselves and the rest of the world...
...regret that the associate press have so grossly misrepresented the late disturbance at Exeter. The Exonian gives, in substance, the following account: About one-fourth of the whole number of students in the Academy, wishing to express their disapproval of the action of the Faculty in removing two young men from the Academy, and in expelling one more of their number, went around to the professors' houses at night and gave a tin-horn serenade. After the serenade some persons who probably were not in the Academy went to the houses of two of the professors and broke some glass...