Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...needs no argument to withstand the enthusiasm of innovation. The nature of its error is apparent to all of us who have howled in the Yard in our Freshman year, who were properly drunk at the class supper in our Sophomore year, and who, finally, are determined to give a last exhibition of our culture around the tree...
...editorial in a Magenta a few weeks after the formation of the plan of the present Dining Association, an attempt was made to give a reason why so few students - at that time only a hundred - had applied for seats in the Hall. This was attributed to a doubt on the part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that...
...certain circumstances, a fee from men who present themselves a third time for examination on any subject is a move in an entirely new direction. We take it that the idea was not so much to bring men to get off their conditions on the first trial as to give some recompense to the tutor, whose work is increased by their carelessness or stupidity. If more such measures were introduced, if a system of fines should be substituted in part for the system of censure-marks, we believe that the result would give general satisfaction. We could then be allowed...
...seems to have been chiefly directed against the police. It is both interesting and affecting to find in conservative England that same tender sympathy ever existing between student and policeman which marks our relations with the peelers of the Port. A curious event has just occurred at Oxford. We give the Journals account of the affair...
Granting the equity of this decision, and supposing that I have supplied the goody with a key originally, I wish to remonstrate against the penalty which the College imposes on me for the carelessness of their servant. If we supply these keys they should give us some authority over the servants. We should have the right to make them responsible for our property if it is intrusted to their care, and if they are not responsible to us, we should have it in our power to appeal to some one in authority who would punish their carelessness, and that...