Word: lingerer
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...some minds there seems to linger the erroneous idea that all college papers are published simply for amusement, and it would be well for any such to disabuse their minds of this impression, before venturing an opinion as to the liberty any paper should possess. It is not the amusement, by any means, that induces men to devote so much of their time to writing. The real aim of every college paper is to voice the best collegiate sentiment on subjects that intimately concern a student ; and that, by so doing, it tends to raise the tone of a college...
...parents and where is his goodly dwelling?" But I have never learned the answers to these questions. The problem of the man with the iron mask counts as nothing with me; here is a secret twice as strange and impenetrable. Some noble object must be his; why does he linger among us - among us and yet not of us? Is he a Polish exile; or was his home once in Iceland's unhappy isle? What is the mystery of his existence...
...linger today in this mid-arch of time...
...linger in life's locks, love...
...eradication would almost seem to show that they are grounded in nature. But the secret is they had their rise in the days of arbitrary college government; they were revolts against over-rigid discipline, and having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just...