Word: mayings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...greatest reform we have been guilty of is the dethronement of Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary" disposition and bent have been to all outward appearances usurped by their exuberant successors. The Sophomores may repudiate our proffered condolence, and tell us what we call usurpation is voluntary abdication. In such case, we beg their pardon. We are sometimes influenced by the memory of our own Sophomore days, which, passed as they were under the old regime, we delight in recalling...
Upon comparing this valuable work with the Circular of Cambridge, England, no one will fail to be struck with this bold stride toward the English University System. Men of expensive habits may procure a fine library-edition of this compendious volume at the bookstore...
...holy precincts of the Yard without scandalizing the feelings of some conscientious proctor; and as a climax to this remarkable category, men who are averse to cuts, and have been heard audibly to growl when an occasional one has been given, are to be informed that they may cut whenever they please...
...those prophets of the press above mentioned! We would earnestly thank those journals who have wasted ink and paper in such fruitless speculations, for their kindly interest in Harvard's future. We thank them, inasmuch as we believe their intentions to have been good. But however deeply they may be distressed at the slight progress Harvard has made toward that foreign system, to themselves so attractive, they have at least had the opportunity of seeing the folly of utterly groundless speculation. For our own part, though changes in some particulars of our present system are eminently desirable, we are willing...
EACH decade of college life brings forth new words, the derivation, meaning, and correct application of which are often distorted; one year they may express one thing, and the next fall into disuse. The word which forms the caption of this article, since it is turned from its usual signification, is illustrative of what we mean. The work entitled "College Words and Customs" contains no definition of it; we infer, from the fact that this book was published some score of years ago, that the word is of comparatively recent origin. It is, however, only a name for certain customs...