Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...empty it in face of the whole company. This is considered a great humiliation and amounts to asking everybody's pardon for his behavior. If, however, the "Fuchs" thinks that he has been unjustly called upon for a "Bierjunge," he can appeal to the president. If the latter sees fit he orders the challenger to drain his glass. This performance is loaded with tremendous odium and the men are very careful about challenging a new member without sufficient cause. There is an element of humor and "coziness" combined with a certain amount of rigid discipline in all these ceremonies which...
...Conference Committee further recommend that the penalty for all cheating be separation from the college, that is, that he who cheats be either dismissed or expelled. Suspension, which has hitherto been the punishment, is too light. If a man is dishonest he is not fit to take a degree from Harvard; he is neither a gentleman, nor is he fit to associate with gentlemen. The only thing to do with him is to make him leave college...
...carry on any of the "regular class work which forms the backbone of a good college course." This statement would be worth discussing, were it true; but unhappily President Anderson did not know what he was talking about. His little theory, although a very pretty one, does not fit the facts. For out of the one hundred and eighty-five courses offered here this year, only forty-five are in charge of anyone under the rank of assistant professor. Moreover, as we have said, many even of our tutors and instructors are as able as the Rochester University "professors...
...impress of every belief and of every tradition, so that it may offend no prejudices, is a sure way of making it a mockery; the studied reserve, the conscious insufficiency of such a service is too notorious to be pointed out. In our day, to make a religion fit for all, is to make one fit for nobody. The prayers, then, should feed the craving for worship which some yet feel; they should have a meaning. But since they cannot possibly have one meaning for all, let only those attend them whose sentiments they express. But above all, let them...
...beginning of the second half-year is justly considered a fitting time for rejoicing. There is one community in college, however, which certainly deserves our pity at this period of general mirth and festivity. We refer to the upperclassmen who are so unfortunate as to room in the north entry of Thayer. From time to time we have heard vague rumors concerning the action of certain freshmen in that entry. In the absence of any definite proof to sustain such rumors, we have passed the matter over in silence. A few nights ago, however, we had the misfortune...