Word: ill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students at large when thoroughly conversant with the case would give the plan earnest support. A few agreed in the general force of these arguments, but desired to place a specially and carefully selected jury of students in the conference committee in these trials, judging the latter body ill adopted to the ends of a jury. Several wholly disagreed with the main plan of a trial by students, holding that college opinion would not support such a system. These latter maintained that the conference committee was unsuited by its very nature to exercise such power, and that the change would...
Many of the students had had a bitter personal experience with their governments, and many others had seen relatives and dear friends arrested, on mere suspicion, and banished even without trial. Naturally politics was the ill-absorbing topic of conversation, and, as may be imagined, the young reformers, although united in opposition to the existing evils of society, were often divided by the most conflicting opinions as to the remedy of those evils. The club to which the young American belonged, was a veritable centre of political news; and many of the members were active writers for the press...
...practice was discontinued, and that the reasons are perfectly satisfactory both from the standpoint of convenience upon which our correspondent laid great stress, and also from the more scholarly standpoint of improvement in sophomore theme work. In the first particular the machinery involved was too cumbersome, and was ill-fitted to accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done. In the second particular the practice is one which distinctly does not tend to improve the student's style. Improvement of style is not to be attained by a perusal of laborious, crude...
...audience at the Historical lecture Wednesday evening, was much annoyed by the disturbance and childish pranks of a crowd of Cambridge youths who attended. The ill timed applause and boisterous demonstrations were extremely discourteous to the speaker, and we are surprised that the makers of the disturbances were admitted to the lecture. We sincerely hope that the nuisance of the Cambridge youth may be avoided in future...
...prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained to believe that those devout men would have preferred to establish no prayers, to devise some other way of calling the roll, and to leave the students who wished to pray to do so in private. They established prayers that they might pray together...