Word: friends
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Stuff! young man. Are men respected at college because they work and try to do their duty? and do you suppose the world at large appreciates merit any more than we do here? My young friend, your education has been seriously neglected. Do not let the insane idea that justice exists this side of the grave possess...
Suppose, my friend, twoscore more years have passed over your head, and you are bringing your hopeful son to the kindly arms of Alma Mater. With pride will you point out the place where you were arrested by the Port peeler. Approaching the then venerable Holyoke House, you will say, "Here, my son, is the very gutter in which I lay till the kind arms of comrades carried me to bed." With what admiring awe will your son regard you, and how he will endeavor to tread in the steps of his illustrious sire...
...SOPHOMORE who takes Italian I found cetera desunt written at the end of his examination-book, and replied to a friend's inquiry, that the first part of his book was a good deal marked up, but the instructor had written that the rest was decent...
...appears that a practice known as "stacking" is in vogue at Cornell. "Stacking" is a sort of practical joke "usually perpetrated by friends on friends." The perpetrating friends choose a moment when their victimized friend is absent to enter his - or her - room, and to pile up his - or her - furniture, books, and other effects in the middle of the floor. The Review admits that this is not "true hazing," but denounces it as "sneaking"; and declares that the perpetrators deserve a good "threshing," which we suppose to be a Western synonyme for "thrashing...
...Brunonian explains that Brown has determined to send no crew to Saratoga for the following "simple" reasons, which cannot help being "satisfactory to the most ardent friend of Brown or the dullest intellect": first, one of their best men could not row, for reasons not made public, and of course they would not send a crew which did not contain all "their best men"; and secondly, they owe "quite a sum" for last year's expenses, and wisely consider that it is best to incur no new debts until the old ones are paid...