Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only "exchanges." The obvious intention of this change is to place a check upon the practice of drawing a room through one's friends. The only method now left for obtaining a room by this means is to have the friend throw up his room, and to engage it oneself as soon as it is offered to be let. In attempting this, however, there is considerable danger of being anticipated by a third party. Another change in the Bursar's regulations is that the declaration about having engaged the room for one's own occupancy is no longer required...
...essentially devoted to this same purpose, but the Faculty, thinking that its place was now filled, withdrew it from the electives. So great, however, was the interest aroused in Parliamentary matters, it was thought best last year to revive it. A knowledge of Parliamentary roles, an ability to express oneself clearly and logically, firm grasp of the subject under consideration in order to be able to do this, a self confidence and freedom from embarrassment in addressing an audience are among the inestimable results of an active participation in public debate. Nothing is so humiliating...