Word: non
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club combines the advantages of a social resort and a place for exercise, and numbers among its members some of the most famous athletes of New York. Every week a "boxing-night" is announced, and the contest is generally well attended. To athletes and non-athletes alike, a visit to the club-house with its splendid appointments, cannot fail to be interesting...
Several members of the Conference Committee proved remiss in their duty yesterday. Non-attendance at the meeting surely cannot be excused. Those who were present labored under the great disadvantage of being unable to judge with accuracy the actual state of college opinion, on a question which must rest on college opinion as a support. The proposition of trial of cribbers by students, either by those who are members of the Conference Committee or by a jury specially chosen, is well calculated to correct the impression abroad regarding cribbing, but such a system to be successful must be backed eventually...
...prayer petition, he said, used to be circulated every year as it is now, although with perhaps not quite so much vigor. The discipline for non-attendance at prayers was very severe, and the culprit took a prominent position in the displeasure of the faculty. The narrator got excused early in his freshman year as he lived out of prayer limits. Soon after he moved up under the shadow of Appleton and dwelt there a year before the validity of his excuse was questioned. He was then summoned by the president and later called before a full meeting...
...seen, the merits of the plan rest mainly on the question, whether or not the consolidation would insure enough more alumni aid to cover the increase in expenditure, the decrease in individual undergraduate interest, and besides give materially increased help to the important non self-supporting organizations. It seems to the outsider as if this would not be likely to ensure and that more damage than good would come from "bunching" interests that are essentially independent...
...freshman once replied to this question, "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the buttery." The boys Latin had failed to the great amusement of all present...