Word: member
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot but ask for an explanation. Doubtless a member of the upper classes would say: - "They are freshmen and so know no better. But as a freshman I dismiss this answer with the contempt it deserves. For my own part, I can devise but one explanation. Probably the men who converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height...
...these statements, (the italics are my own) were written by some one not a member of the college, the editors of the Herald are perhaps alone responsible, and the article may have been written under a misapprehension of the facts, but if the author is at present in college, (and there is internal evidence that this so,) then he should be discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these...
...millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future for the university that is to be. Sad as it may be to think that the future classes of '97, '98, and the rest, may not count in their number the smiling member from San Francisco and the Pacific Slope, who now seems an indispensable part of Harvard, we must school ourselves to the idea of separation. However, notwithstanding this serious drawback, Stanford University has our best wishes. It is sincerely to be hoped that no mismanagement, such as is only too common...
...played the title role in his own work very well, and if he will cut it down from four acts to three it may achieve some success as there is smart repartee and clever word fencing in it. - Toronto Referee. Mr. Lander will be remembered in Cambridge as a member of the class...
...oratorical drill unless they are compelled to do so by a demand made by the college that public speaking shall in some way be improved. How that end is to be accomplished is questionable. As it now stands the appeal is made to the personal pride of each member of the university...