Word: manned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...utmost fairness. It is impossible to deny that the action of the board in posting the names of these culprits is, in the strictest sense, justifiable. It is vain to try to find excuses for such conduct. But, nevertheless, we believe that the punishment is too harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world...
...rogue pure and simple such a punishment is deserved. But for the man who is honest at heart, a good fellow in every way, who, by the accumulation of work or the natural inability to write a theme, succumbs to the temptation of copying, the punishment is too severe. The Administrative Board should weigh a man's case with the utmost care before proceeding to this extreme remedy. A distinction should be made between the purely vicious man and the weak man, naturally honest, who has succumbed to a powerful temptation...
...scrimmage. The dozen men immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers. They would probably tear away all they could. Or, even if prompted by more generous motives, they would be unable to get out through the impenetrable mass of men behind them. Each man in the crowed would be so tightly wedged in between four men, before, behind, right and left, that however willing he should be to let the man who had got flowers pass out, he would be absolutely unable to move. This scene would be very flat and uninteresting...
...classes of '41, '46, '50, '61, '64, '68, '81, '83, and '84,- only two favored the proposed change; the rest were unanimous in their belief that a longer celebration than has hitherto been customary would inevitably be more elaborate, more expensive, and, in general, such that the poor man would be sharply divided from the rich; and Class Day would be no longer the dear and beautiful festival which it has been for more than fifty years...
...candidates met in the Trophy Room of the Gymnasium at seven thirty, when Captain Goodrich spoke to them about the importance of keeping up their interest in rowing. Because a man does not make his Freshman crew is no sign that he will not make his class crew or the 'Varsity another year. It is important for every one to give an enthusiastic support to the crews, if rowing is to be made successful...