Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the senior class of Dartmouth College to express a choice for commencement orator, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll received a majority of votes. Subsequent, it was learned that this year the right of choosing the commencement orator is vested in the Alumni Association, and not in the senior class; consequently the action of the latter is valid...
Resolved, That this association hereby express their confidence in the scheme now under the conduct of Mr. H. H. Balch of the New York Lacrosse Club to send a representative team of United States lacrosse players to England and Ireland in the spring or summer...
...fall. Besides there is a sound of selfishness in this, for, while such men enjoy to a certain extent the benefits of the society, they have contributed nothing to its maintenance. There are, moreover, other good results flowing from the society which it would hardly be possible to express in figures, and which will extend beyond our college life. We refer to the habit of cash payment which, it is to be hoped, students, having learnt at college, will carry with them through life...
...Yale papers express themselves very strongly against the recent personal attack of the New York Tribune, and believe that such methods are likely to do more injury than benefit to the cause of protection even in a college so little inclined to free trade as Yale...
...illustrated periodical, Life, it seems tous, display an undue and over-zealous eagerness to disclaim for their paper any tinge of college tone or influence. Without discussing whether or not such an influence would be after all so terrible a thing as it is painted, we must express our surprise that its editors select and reprint as an advertisement of their paper an envious fling at the Lampoon and at "Boston superciliousness," taken from the New York Critic. "In view of its success," cries the Critic, "there is something highly comic [sic] in the assertion of certain Boston papers that...