Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Last of all come the secret societies. Of these nobody knows anything, and the very mention of their name is an indiscretion which may produce the most direful results. In point of fact, I don't think that there are many of them, and I am sure that the members are not the deep-dyed villains which their enemies would have us to believe. But, at the same time, their achievements are not of a creditable sort. Bonfires, explosions, amateur burglary of private as well as of public property, and all that sort of thing, are not feats which...
...good deal of general information, and who are sensible enough to keep it to themselves when it is not asked for. And this blessed few, when they find themselves in a company where shop must perforce be talked, are willing to talk your shop instead of their own. To mention names would be invidious, but I think that you will remember one or two people of this sort. And you ought to make it your business to imitate them...
...Finally I expressed the hope that Harvard would be badly beaten in the annual race for a series of years, believing that nothing short of this. would bring her to her senses. Now it appears that she is persuaded that something has been wrong, for we hear mention of a new stroke. Perhaps we may get it, but I doubt very much if it will be the stroke, for there is only one. Harvard's faults, or rather her complete ignorance of what the best stroke is, has become a transmittendum. The coach of each year inherits the infirmities...
...should it be regarded more detrimental to an open election for men, non-society and society, to unite in supporting a certain ticket, than for men inside a society to unite in doing the same thing? That there was a "coalition" between the members of the Pudding, not to mention persons outside of it, is evident from the facts, first, that before the meeting several Pudding men, in one case as many as four, were nominated by Pudding men for the same office; and, secondly, that in the meeting all these Pudding men voted solidly for one Pudding candidate. Here...
...they hold it is as mysterious as is to the Freshman the query, "Why am I in college?" Their knowledge, too, they hold as some talisman to be used, apparently, in imposing upon others, but nevertheless as something so entirely separate from their own characters that the very mention of it is ground for the accusation of "talking shop...