Word: inflicting
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There is a notice hung in the dormitories prohibiting peddlers and beggars to enter the buildings. The notice seems, however, to have little effect; every day some of these people come to the rooms and inflict upon the occupants a long description of the merits of their wares, or an account of a mother who has been unable to do any work for ten or twelve years, or else the beggar relates how he was disabled in a steamboat explosion, or some similar disaster. A man actually presented us a paper not long ago, which on careful examination we found...
...made a step forward in allowing voluntary recitations to all. But there is one point which seems to call for some notice, and that is that all punishments are left unreservedly in the hands of one officer of the Faculty. The severity or lightness with which he may inflict punishment for continual "cutting," for instance, is unrestricted by any bounds, and he is at perfect liberty to take away the privilege of voluntary recitations whenever he deems fit. This appears to us to be taxing one person with more responsibility than human nature is capable of bearing; especially when...
...which you have let drop in your letters have led me to think that, like most boys who enter a new world, you have been a little surprised at the moral tone of the society in which you find yourself; and presuming this to be the case, I shall inflict upon you to-day some remarks and some advice of a little more serious character than usual...
...Notion (an Ocean) in the Head." There were others who seemed to be laboring under the difficulty of which a Junior member boldly complained, saying that his subject was such that he had been obliged to write a pack of prodigious nonsense, which he was going to inflict on us as a punishment for making him write...
...hope that a wire gauze will be put over the west window of Alumni Hall to protect it from the injury that a chance branch blown by the wind, or a wanton passer, might inflict upon...