Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interesting to hear some acute observer of society assure you that his classmate Fawn is a toady, that he does everything for policy, and that he has fallen in with the social customs which are undermining all the manhood of this college. It is no less edifying to hear some philosophic spirit pronounce social success a bubble which men are foolishly pursuing, and confidently declare that complete independence is the only position that can be taken by a man who has any self-respect. When this frank philosopher assures us that, whatever others may do, he will not "crook...
...marshy ground in the Campus at Brown having been filled in, a botanist in the Brunonian deplores the disappearance of the Viburnum lentago, Chelone glabra, and Ilex verticillata; we are happy to hear, however, that the Campus still boasts the possession of many rare and beautiful flowers, whose names fill up about a column in the Brunonian; among the prettiest of these names are Polygonum orientale, Campanula rapunculoides, and Alopecurus pratensis. It would be equally inelegant, impolite, and unnecessary to advise the Brunonians to "go to grass...
...going too fast. I have taken it for granted that we are to have exercises in the morning. I must stop. I am told that the oration and poem are dull and stupid, that no one wants to hear them, and that they only serve to tire people by bringing them here so early in the day. To this the answer is simple : the oration and poem have been a part of Class Day as long as there has been a Class Day. Every one knows what to expect of them, and year after year it has been impossible...
...very feeble excuse; for if one were only to take account of the time he wastes each day, it would be found to be many times more than the one hour spent profitably in the manner described. It is another common excuse that there is no use in hearing Homer and Virgil over again when they were learned so thoroughly before coming to college. But they were not then, we claim, understood; they were merely hurried through as so much task-work. It is only in later years that the fine points of these authors are seen. In regard...
WHEN the orator of the class of '76 told us the story of the last rush between Sophomores and Freshmen, we thought we should never hear anything more about hazing at Harvard. It is true that Princeton undergraduates still indulge in this old-time custom, and that the Faculty at Yale think it best to suppress the publication of the residences of Freshmen in view of the periodical cruelty of the Sophomoric soul; but hazing at Harvard we expected to see only in the pictures of "Student Life," or in the columns of the Boston Transcript...