Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...larger part of these petitions are, of course, for prayer cuts, the rest bearing on our system of voluntary attendance at recitations - voluntary if we feel like going. Whether or not it is right to offer these guileful petitions for our prayer cuts, and, as it were, to fight the devil with fire, we are not prepared to say. It is a social problem upon the solution of which we shall not enter until the marks are out in Ethics nineteen: but truly is not the cause and effect as plainly seen as in the Nihilism of Russia...
...reference to college journalism an exchange advances the statements that students like to criticise, that faculties dislike to be criticised, and as a result that a college paper cannot give satisfaction both to students and faculty at the same time. These statements, although obviously so foolish, are worth notice because they voice the opinion of many unthinking readers who consider that the sole aim of the college press is to "grind" the faculty and carry on a sort of warfare against the existing powers...
...editorial department of a college paper must be critical at times, but, as the reflection of college sentiment, it is as often deprecatory of student shortcomings as of faculty haughtiness. That faculties dislike to be criticised is not true in the main, we think. No body of men like fault-finding; but good honest criticism, when well meant and of a "remedial" character must meet with respect anywhere...
...numskulls the elements of a noble science. A very eminent physician once said to a wealthy young man who was undecided whether to start a chemical factory or to follow up chemistry in a purely theoretical way, - "For Heaven's sake devote yourself to pure science; we need men like you, whose brains need not be split up in seeking for their daily bread...
...yesterday's issue, differs slightly from that of last year. There will be no spring-board leaping, and our curiosity is not again to be gratified by an exhibition of German duelling. The management of the meetings has been satisfactory, as a rule, in former years, but we should like to suggest one much needed improvement. We refer to the present manner of admitting the audience to the gymnasium. Some means ought to be taken to prevent the dangerous and disgraceful crowding and pushing in the vestibule before the doors are opened. This can easily be avoided by numbering...