Word: inflicts
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...faculty propose to inflict some punishment on those students who overran their prayer cuts last year. Petitions for the excusing of last year's cuts are now in order...
...late Prof. Henry Smith, of Oxford, was so unwilling to inflict pain that he even hesitated to find fault with lazy and stupid pupils. On one occasion two undergraduates of his college brought him their exercises for correction. To the first he merely said, "Thank you, Mr. A., that is very nice, very nice indeed." To the second when he anxiously inquired as to the possible fate of his companion in an approaching examination, "O your friend Mr. A.? He, too, will be ploughed...
...governed, with efforts mutually opposed; the governors seeking to establish an artificial order, the governed bent on maintaining their natural liberty. Professors should not be responsible for the manners of students beyond the legitimate operation of their personal influence. Academic jurisdiction should have no criminal code, should inflict no penalty but that of expulsion, and that only in the way of self-defence against positively noxious and dangerous members...
...saves a cut by so doing, the custom is a disagreeable one, to say the least. Within the last two weeks the exercises have been seriously interrupted half a dozen times by a few men coming in half a minute late. As long as the corporation see fit to inflict us with morning prayers, it behooves us to attend, when we do attend, in a gentlemanly manner. We hope that the freshmen will soon learn by experience to calculate their time to a better advantage...
Every day brings new evidence of the need of the Co-operative Association. The extortions of some of the tradesmen of Cambridge are shameful. They have flourished long enough on the outrages they have had the impudence to inflict on students, and now is the time to put an end to their extortions. We are glad to see that the Co-operative Association has determined not to start on a scale that would be too extensive, but we hope that they will gradually take means to free students as far as possible from purchasing any of the necessities from Cambridge...