Word: mock
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...being tried at Connell. It has been suggested to me by Dr. H. B. Adams, Professor of History in the Johns Hopkins University, to call your attention to an organization of our own, similar in purpose to that at Cornell, although not entirely so in form. Instead of a Mock House of Commons. The classic form of a "Literary Society" has been dragging along a precarious existence ever since the foundation of the university, but has been lamentably unsuccessful. Our new plan combines, we think, the advantages of the old system in having an official committee charged with bringing...
...They are Protean in their natures," my guide replied. "They can assume any form, counterfeit any emotion, mock any expressions of feeling. Thus it is that they deceptively adapt themselves to the world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they are growing less and less in number. Silently the celestial policemen, among whom I am one, are carrying them to their reward. They are called the Lotos-Eaters of Earth.- But the East is brightening; the day is near. I must be away...
...Cornell students have determined that oratory shall not become a lost art at their college, and impressed with the importance of giving the budding statesman a chance to spread his farreaching opinion among his fellow men, have decided to organize a mock Congress. This congress is to be composed, of course, of two houses, but the number of members is to be limited. The plan at present is to have the senate composed of eighteen members, chosen for their ability and skill in debate, while the remainder of the congress, about forty men, will make of themselves a House...
...students of the University of Vermont are to hold a mock courtmartial, under the direction of their military instructor...
...mock Congress has been organized at Michigan University...