Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...term is not so general. Still, others say nothing, but adopt a code of morals so highly elastic that they do not themselves dare to classify their acts. Is it true that the students of Harvard smoke more, drink deeper, and live faster than the students of other colleges? Let us look at the matter a little closer for a moment. In a university so large as Harvard it will be possible to find students of every shade of private character. Some of us affect the Byronic and boast themselves "perfect Timons, not nineteen." Others betray the evil course...
...then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen, and our actions prove it. Nor because we sign a prayer petition can we be justly called a "pack of boys," as one New York paper styles us, or a "set of indifferent, dissolute young men," as still another...
...let. - A double, corner room in Weld, one flight up, to be let furnished, piano included. Apply to the janitor...
...Let our correspondents and all students whom he represents judge the conference harshly, only when they have positive knowledge on which to base their judgement. Let maturity of thought and investigation of facts have their wholesome effect on comments intended for publication. Wait, give the conference a chance, and it may show that it deserves something besides hasty censure...
...let. - A double, corner room in Weld, one flight up, to be let furnished, piano included. Apply to the janitor...