Word: feared
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar, it may as well be he as any one else. The Freshmen, too, have been very backward in joining; they seem to share the general fear of an assessment of enormous size: this is entirely a mistake. Out of last year's Freshman class over one hundred and fifty joined the association, and the money got by their initiation fees was sufficient to pay all debts, and leave a surplus of about $17 in the treasury. Surely...
...this fact encourages him to work so as to do as well on the Annuals; if he has done poorly, he should be informed, so that he may mend his ways and do better for the rest of the year. In neither case does harm result. To particularize, some fear that the marks will not be announced in History 6. This is a course which has never been given before, which is on a rather indefinite subject, and which is largely taken by Seniors, - all of these facts are reasons enough why the marks should not be kept secret...
Just put one hand - why dost thou fear...
...surely this is a puerile objection! Why, on the same principle, should one man wear a better coat than another? Why do some men have larger, more expensive, better furnished rooms than others? Why, again, does one man dare to board at an eight-dollar club-table for fear his less fortunate classmate, who is subject to the slow starvation of Mr. Farmer's table, may be envious of his better lot? Simply because in our student world, as in the world at large, there are men of various tastes and of various fortunes. If the College would...
...Pall Mall Gazette, in regard to the challenge Cornell has sent to England, says: "It is to be regretted if the refusal of Cambridge to row should be interpreted, as very likely it will be, into a confession of fear of the prowess of American oarsmen. But the truth is, that these foreign aspirations are a nuisance to university men. If accepted, the long vacation is sacrificed, and that for a game which is not worth the candle. It is felt that there is no special honor to be gained by rowing and defeating an American club; but the match...