Word: outright
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...marks. In other words, a false and injurious method is to be maintained, because, forsooth, instructors are afraid to speak the truth unless it is shielded in a specious disguise. It is strange that they do not see that it is all the same, whether they tell a student outright, or mark him and then tell him. However, special examinations for scholarships might be instituted...
...expect to be pretty well mangled at an examination, but to be killed outright is a little more than most men bargain for. Last Monday morning there was an examination held in U. E. R., where there had been evidently no fire since last February. We would mildly suggest to the Faculty, proctors, janitor, or to whomsoever the duty belonged of putting the room in order for the examination, that on their or his head lies the responsibility of more colds in the head, sore-throats, and catarrh than is pleasant to think...