Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomores two weeks ago pledged themselves to give up hazing on condition that some of them caught hazing should be let off. Last Friday night the Sophomores rushed the Freshmen, and again on Saturday. Accordingly the whole class, except those who can show that they were not in either rush, has been expelled. Most of the class will probably be readmitted on terms imposed by the President, but some, at least, will not be taken back...
...fear that they will not be able to row on any crews. If this doubt were dispelled many would join the clubs, and they will not join until they are sure that the crews are to be made up. Now that we have undertaken the club system let us give it a fair trial before declaring it a failure...
...most of your mornings in a way which will secure the favor of the Faculty. If any popular movement is on foot, you had better throw aside your work for the time being, and take part in it. But in ordinary times you will find that your evenings will give your classmates quite as much of your company as they will be apt to want, and will, very probably, give you rather too much of theirs. Evenings ought to be devoted to pleasure. That is what they were made for; and if you ever try to devote them to anything...
...horizon. The letters we publish this week upon the subject of boating show that there is somewhere an interest in rowing. To turn this dawning spirit in the right direction, to so direct it that it may show us the way to victory, is what we should now give our attention to. That this desirable object may be attained we invite every one to express his view, and we promise to give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions or the processes of reasoning adopted by any of our correspondents this week cannot do better than...
...duty to disagree with the Advocate. Under ordinary circumstances, we consider the words of our contemporary as words of much weight, but when it comes to saying that they shall not give any advice to Freshmen, and then adds, "we must positively forbid any other member of the University giving them advice, satirical or otherwise," stern duty points out our course. We must say to our friends of the Advocate that they may do, or refrain from doing, what they please; but when it comes to forbidding to others the same privilege, they disregard the fundamental principle of our government...