Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...points is one of the disadvantages; but a still greater and more annoying one is the practice of dragging into a lecture every little insignificant fact possible, taking an hour or more for what might be delivered in ten or fifteen minutes, and doing all this in order to give the instructor the impression that the lecturer is working night and day on his course, and deserves his good-will, - deliberate "swiping." The third method is little more than a common school-boy recitation, and needs no comment...
...Secretary, this year, does not ask for an elaborate autobiography, with one's descent traced back to Adam, but only for a brief statement of the way in which and the place where the student's life has been passed. We hope that the members of the class will give a tolerably detailed account of the way in which they have spent their college life, the societies they have been members of, their connection with athletics, the rooms they have occupied, and, if space is left, we would suggest that every one should append to his life a list...
...always been sincere. For this reason we were extremely sorry to see in the January number an inexpressibly and incomprehensibly silly production, entitled "Beatrice : A Flirtation Homily." For the amusement, or rather amazement, of those less unfortunate readers of ours who do not see the Lit., we give an outline of the story. It is that of a conceited puppy whose ideas of man, woman, and flirtation may be seen from the following quotation...
...does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...
...foolish or vicious acts or speeches should imagine that it cannot be done in a gentlemanly way. They assume that it is necessary to "blurt out" abusive censure, forgetting that censure is often clearly expressed simply by silence. Their argument seems to be that in any case they would give offence, and no gentleman should give offence, - a principle the folly of which is exceeded only by its harmfulness. For, when principle is at stake, as in buying fraudulent examination-papers or talking ridiculously about getting drunk, unless we are to allow such breaches of decency to pass unnoticed...