Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first time. We see that the uniforms straighten them up, give them a new sense of responsibility, raise their ambitions and their standards. The benefits are not unmixed with evils. Men now and then get into uniforms who are inclined to overwork the authority which they symbolize and who offend us by vanity or by insolence. These however, are the exceptions, and we may feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national service make for a spirit of noblesse oblige, especially in the junior ranks. And so long as they...
...charged for the tickets does not make it less true that those into whose hands Yard tickets legitimately come are really guests of the Senior Class. In its appeal on another page, the 1913 Class Day Committee generously gives no harsher name than "mere carelessness" to those who thus offend. To us it seems that the public opinion of the University would give a less mild epithet to men who disregard the whole intent and purpose of the occasion as implied in the official title "Class...
...sacred representative of Christ. He is called Christ's vicar upon earth. To speak of their great spiritual master as the verse in the Monthly speaks, is to insult Catholics and broad-minded men in general at Harvard as well as the Pope himself. I do not wish to offend the writer of the verse when I say that his work displays a certain thoughtlessness and hasty ignorance which he himself would have been the last to allow to take the form of print had he stopped to reflect. It may be worth while here to remark that, contrary...
...grateful to wise men, and chargeable to the parents of the Commencers, [the Corporation] do therefore put an end to that custom, and do hereby order that no Commencers, or other scholar, shall have any such cakes in their studies or chambers; and that if any scholar shall offend therein, the cakes shall be taken from him, and he shall moreover pay to the College twenty shillings for each such offense...