Word: length
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Various "dwellers in the realms above," i. e. the third and fourth stories, have their distinguishing characteristics. One saunters slowly along the entry, and then, as if to make up for wasted moments, takes the next flight four steps at a time. Another delights in rapping the whole length of the wall, as if trying to find a sound spot, or possibly to suggest prospects of a visitor to the occupants of the entry. A third drags his stick along the floor, and drops it on the stairs, apparently for the purpose of picking it up again. In short...
Lastly, - placed last because we wish to dwell at length on it, - it seems to us that our College journals are to some extent to blame for the false impressions received by those who are only too anxious to enlarge upon them by a malicious push of their reportorial pens. It is very seldom, indeed, that an article appears in the Advocate or Crimson from which the public can get an erroneous impression of any phase of our college life. But when one does appear that admits of more than one rendering, and allows the reader to draw...
...temptation to rest on Saturday and to study on Sunday. The "conscience, stretched by this relaxation," soon permitted others, and "whist, poker, and Sunday-evening visits to Temple Street" - whatever that may mean - soon became common. These sins, horrible as they were, affected only the sinners, but at length, hardened by their vicious habits into a callous disregard of the feelings of their neighbors, the Sabbath-breakers began to sing and play snatches from college songs and the Opera Bouffe on Sunday. This final straw broke the Record camel's back, and the lament of the injured animal culminates...
...spelling-match mania has reached England, and a "Spelling Bee" took place last month at Rugby. Three gentlemen kept apace for some time, but at length one succumbed before Sanhedrim, and another before pseudonyme, leaving the victor to glory in the correct spelling of physiognomy...
...from New York, and partly to the "strengthening influence of room prayer-meetings." These latter consist of gatherings of twenty friends or so, who converse on religious topics with cheerful earnestness, who utter "heartfelt prayers," and indulge in "hearty singing." The Lit. has described these proceedings at great length, first, because "this theme - religion - is in every one's mouth"; and secondly, because it wishes its "sister colleges" to know "how the change came upon" Princeton. It is convinced that the "sister colleges" will at once followed in Princeton's footsteps; and it thinks that in the deep religious convictions...