Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thoroughly happy man...
...KNOW a man of seventy years...
...year. Nor does the number of privates and publics for snowballing ever decrease because the men cease to snowball. It needs no seer to discover the reasons. Not one in fifty of those who shout from their windows can be reported; in snowballing there are few chances that a man will be observed; what would be called serious disorder many times escapes notice. To be sure, when a man is detected, the authorities are not slow to award him his punishment, but thirty-two or sixty-four demerits have little effect on most men. Besides, the trifling nature of many...
...what seem to the majority of the students but trifles. I do not doubt that each one can think of examples in his own class where this has happened. Suspension under the best circumstances is open to the charge of injustice. It is hard to say that a man shall be deprived of all instruction by the College for three or six months for a mere technicality; because he failed to attend the requisite number of prayers, because he was absent a certain number of times from church without an excuse, because perhaps he was seen on Jarvis "Bloody Monday...
...relations with our instructors are for the most part pleasant. There is not, as is said to be the case in many colleges, a continual state of warfare between students and professors. Their hesitation in dismissing a man is very grateful to us, while any requests on their part are usually heeded. From the President's remarks in his Report about compulsory attendance at all college exercises, there is hope that it will not be long before this is a thing of the past...