Word: honester
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WISH to give two reasons why the attempt to force us to employ the janitors as scouts seems to me wholly unjustifiable. One would think that the reasons would be apparent to any honest and fair-minded man. In the first place, this move of the Bursar's is nothing more than an attempt, which might almost be called underhanded, to get from the students more money to pay the current college expenses than is given by the regular stated college fees. It is apparent enough that the janitors, regular college employees, are underpaid with the understanding that they shall...
...indorse the opinion that "it will be a desirable change in college journalism when the days of reviews and literary criticism are ended, and a period marked by more original, independent effort is begun," producing "fresh, live essays, filled with their authors' personalities and earnest with their own honest thoughts," even if, now and then, a fledgling, too early venturing upon untried opinions, shall vainly flutter, and fall to the ground...
...unusually clear headed for one of his age, and his sound judgment, unbiassed by those things which usually influence young men, was of great service to himself and to those associated with him. He was a true, steadfast friend, and the memory of his kind, honest heart will not soon be lost...
...These men who manage the association do not make any money by it, nor advertise any locality through it, nor grind any axes with it. Their inspiring motive, so far as an outsider of some experience in such matters may judge, is an enthusiasm for the encouragement of honest amateur aquatics, and for the suppression of paid oarsmen at all hazards. The presumption that the college races under their auspices will be satisfactorily managed must be admitted to be a strong one by any reader of the following press comments concerning their regatta at Newark, on the 20th and 21st...
GREAT astonishment on the part of the honest postmaster of Wellesley at the number of Advocates which appeared there last Saturday...