Word: may
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...came the great dispute and struggle as to who should be qualified to row in the different crews. Motions were made, and amendment after amendment added. The presiding officer showed clearly a lack of decision and an ignorance of parliamentary rules which a few more years in college may correct, and was, just at this point, in a cheerful state of mental haziness as regarded what motions had been made, lost, or carried. It seemed as if order would never come out of this chaos. The only thing quite clear in all the motions and amendments was that Yale...
AMONG Bostonians a student passes for about what he is worth; at any rate, he gains nothing from merely being a student. This may be due to the fact that Boston, from having seen so many students in her day, has fathomed their nature; yet we are cautious in assigning this reason, for Boston is not like other towns, and perhaps would be able to judge without experience. But starting from this place, the student of Harvard finds that the consideration which he receives increases in proportion to the number of miles which separate him from his point of departure...
However pleasing it may be to some of us to carry the reputation of being jolly dogs, etc., yet the above picture symbolizes the characteristics of a very small set of each class, - a set which grows smaller as the class grows older. The majority of students do not deserve the name they have abroad. As a rule they are earnest in their studies, thoughtful and devoted, fully conscious of the advantages presented by their Alma Mater, and determined to make the most of them. But although this is the case, in order to obtain justice from others, we must...
...reason that few of us feel desirous or able to spend the three or four millions required annually to support the spread-eagle style on such a scale before a gaping world. Do not, however, set down the trait as a characteristic of him alone, or even, as you may quite willingly do, attribute it also to A, and admit that you have observed it in B; but consider honestly your own case as well. Do you say you don't believe any such thing, that there is nothing of the Jim-Fisk in you? Stop and think...
...always discriminating in the objects of its attack? It is the peculiarity in a man most open to laughable roughing, not the one most deserving it, that receives the greatest share of this kind of criticism. It has come to such a pass that a timid and sensitive man may well be restrained from an action, perfectly good and praiseworthy in itself, but still a little out of the usual run, from fear of the consequent roughing. At any rate, he is obliged to consider beforehand "what the fellows will say about it." Thus independence is placed at a discount...