Word: men
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...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 was working hard to allow men to be taken from the scientific schools alone, in addition to the academic departments, and that all the small colleges who have never rowed yet, and who will, in all likelihood, not enter a crew at Springfield this year, were voting with Yale with as much regularity...
...men their understanding...
...older I grow (I am now quite venerable), the more I am inclined to think that it is nothing but lack of ability or opportunity that keeps down this element in the majority of men. Of course there are exceptions, but excessive modesty is not a common failing of the age. The boy who dragged his new trousers around in the dust before wearing them, so that their freshness might not be suspected, was an uncommon child. Boys don't do so now. Even the persons who are seemingly most free from the common weakness, if you but change their...
...disease. See him mount the platform and sit down, composedly throwing back the lappel of his coat. See him coolly adjust his eye-glasses (at home he only needs them for reading), and gaze around the room. You would certainly suppose him one of the great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks he is the governor. He rather enjoys this, and does his best to carry out the illusion. He has spied one or two pretty girls in his audience, whom he proceeds to regard especially, to the eminent danger of subverting the discipline...
...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 the object of unmerciful badgering from his more conventional companions. They do not stop to ask whether their friend's conduct is not worthy rather of imitation and praise than of roughing...