Word: manness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...RANK MAN" has succeeded in effectually demolishing all commonly received systems of metaphysics; he takes as an instance the case of a "quadrilateral with, say, one thousand sides," and has the instructor...
...reminded that an engagement with a dentist is not accepted by the Faculty as a sufficient excuse for an absence from a college exercise. J. W. HARRIS, Sec. H. C." We think that an agent who would offer, about this time, "The Manual of Filling and Pulling," or "Every Man his own Dentist," would meet with as much success among students as the peripatetic vender of "The Science of the New Life...
...beggar so utterly blind that he was led from room to room by a small boy, who nevertheless managed, with wonderful quickness, to detect said boy in the act of appropriating some of the scrip. Surely, "there are none so blind as those who will not see," and this man was a deserving object of charity...
...very thing to turn the hardened student from his evil ways, and give him the true view of life. The disappointment they show when refused can surely result from nothing but their sorrow at our blindness to our own interests, and is enough to make a tenderhearted man repent and invest. The utter absurdity of the articles offered for sale makes no difference; for the man who tries to make you, who always wear laced shoes, believe that the Combined Bootjack and Towel-rack is an indispensable article, lingers as long in the room as the man who sells Bibles...
...last Magenta an article commending the practice of roughing (I must accept the word in its new sense), and pointing out the great advantages to be derived therefrom. It seems to me that this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In some circles a man's actions, good or bad, his words, and even his dress, are the objects of sharp ridicule and thoughtless jest, which often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without that groove becomes...