Word: manly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...given an account of the adventures of a bad boy who never had any of the misfortunes happen to him that always happen to bad little boys in the Sunday-school books. Unfortunately his hero did not go to college, so I have taken the history of another young man who did, to supply this...
...name of my hero was not Jim, but George. To be sure, George is oftener the name of a good young man than of a bad one, yet this particular George was bad; there was no doubt of that. As he had been expelled from only four schools, of course he had not the slightest difficulty in obtaining a certificate of good moral character when he desired to enter college. The examinations offered a slight obstruction for a time, as George was not especially fond of study, but after a few unsuccessful trials he formed an intimacy with a proctor...
...morality, and showed no unpleasant tendency towards independence, he soon became very popular. He was elected into various societies; to be sure, he cared nothing for art, and was not exactly religious, - except on Sunday, - but there is no pleasing those obstinate people who cannot see how a man can be religious and dissipated at the same time. "'T is as easy as lying." Plenty of men combine...
Forgot I was but man...
...students for cutting recitations in his elective, the privilege of voluntary recitations, for which the Junior class has to pay so dear, is practically abolished. Recitations are not really voluntary so long as there is a penalty of any sort for absence, and when an instructor, after finding a man absent for several recitations, sends him a notice that he is not likely to get through the course unless his attendance improves, he makes...