Word: maye
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...May be in a passing fancy...
...avoid the spread-eagle know-little-and-talk-a-great-deal style of oratory in favor with our average American stump-speaker, we have touched the other extreme, and have laid ourselves open to a kind of censure which such articles as that on "The Repressive Influence of Harvard" may be supposed to represent. When one of our own professors publicly acknowledges that there is more than a grain of truth in the remark of an outsider to the effect that a Harvard graduate, however much he may know, can say but a few sentences on any subject, while...
...may be inferred from its title, "Turning-Points in Life" deals with those questions which are, at the same time, the hardest to answer and the most important in the lives of all men. It is, therefore, of especial interest to those who begin to see these enigmas looming up before them, near enough to present in full light all their knotty points, but far enough off to afford time for deliberation. On all the practical questions which he discusses, Mr. Arnold appears to speak impartially and carefully and with good judgment. More than this, however, we cannot...
...seems no more than proper that we should notice what appears to be the death of hazing, though it may be but 2 comatose state into which "that good old custom" has fallen. Of late years hazing has been gradually softening down into a system of roughing - varied by an occasional barbarity - severe enough to injure only that stock of self-conceit which is said to belong to every young man of seventeen or thereabout. But this year we have had not even a "Bloody Monday," nor are we likely to witness any of the consequences which have usually followed...
...spirit of loyal attachment to their Alma Mater is strong among the Sta. Clara students, and, as it appears to be very genuine, it deserves the highest commendation. The religious element in the Owl is considerable, and his feathers are slightly ruffled by the breezes of controversy. It may not quite become the Magenta to meddle with such matters, yet there are one or two points which it behooves us to notice. The Owl's first article on secular education is good as far as it goes, and perhaps the writer did well to leave untouched the knotty and vexatious...