Word: man
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scudded along that evening, the mare and I, my thoughts turned on my future companion. They could not give me one of the boys. Either of my sisters? Well, perhaps. Mrs. Earl? Not if I knew it. I'm afraid she would be dangerous with a lone man. Miss Earl? If - But would her mother let her? But I kept my courage up, and indulged in castles in Spain of a mild type...
...OSSIP," the writer of "Conceit vs. Custom," in the last Crimson, says that whoever believes that "complete independence is the only position that can be taken by a man who has any self-respect" is apt to be "a disappointed aspirant for popularity"; that such a person "openly depreciate[s] what he inwardly esteem[s]"; that he "blurts out his opinion" and pronounces "unsolicited his views on college life and the motives which he thinks should guide it"; and that "he calls every one a toady who is not of his way of thinking." "Hatred toward the popular," "Ossip" quotes...
Then there is the man who asks questions. Why does he do it? It is not for information surely, for he asks questions when he already knows their answers. I think it must be because he wants to give the instructor opportunities to enlighten the rest of us. I know the fellow knows a good deal, for, when we were reading the other day about Hannibal's blasting rocks with fire and vinegar, he asked why he did not use nitro-glycerine...
...much object to him, because he uses up the time. The man who is most incomprehensible to me is he who laughs, -laughs at all the instructor says, all that he says himself, and all that I say. How he can so break decorum as to appear enthusiastic about anything, I cannot understand; it is so unfashionable...
Such are the eccentrics of the section. Its hero I have still in store. He is the dropped man. How we all envy the abandon with which he leans back in his seat and chuckles over a French novel! He always has the French novel, and he never has the lesson. When he is called upon, we fresher Freshmen know that the clever answer will be, "I have no books, sir, -am quite unprepared, -really. know nothing whatever about the subject...