Word: man
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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April 25, Prof. J. D. Whitney, "The Californian Pliocene Man." Illustrated...
...ALTHOUGH it is comparatively early in the term, Senior parts have been assigned to Pray, Salutatorian, and, with the exception of those who had parts last term, and a man who entered Bowdoin during Senior year, all the rest of the class." - Bowdoin Orient...
...must always happen that, with no consideration of the "softness" of courses, some will be chosen by a larger number of students than others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...
...regards the general spirit of his remarks, with success. Those errors which we may have committed were generally due to the obscurity of his meaning. None of them vitiated our defence of true independence. For example, our error in quoting "Ossip" as calling not merely his imaginary independent man but every one who believes in complete independence "a disappointed aspirant for popularity," did not affect our subsequent arguments, which were not directed to prove the falsehood of our misquotation, but to defend independence and its necessary accompaniment, - the clear expression, when proper, of disapprobation. Next, he says that he merely...
...admit" that our only expectation in censuring H. H. was to make him " reflect upon the sally of wit," and we have shown (contrary to "Ossip's" statement) that we have good reason to express disapprobation. Again he says that because we do not "look upon popular men as manly " we do not admit that "the popularity which the independent man professes to scorn is the esteem, the respect, and the friendship of manly men." The reason he assigns is deceptive. If he means that we look upon no popular men as manly he makes a groundless and false assertion...