Word: patting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...myself, unwarmed for the whole four years by a single act or word expressive of interest on the part of those to whom my education was intrusted. And this is literally true. The element of personal influence was entirely lacking. No instructor or officer ever gave me a pat on the shoulder physically, morally, or intellectually...
Both this year and last the association of the University with Summer Military Camps for college men has caused concern among its members. It is seen "standing pat" for the old established order of War; and losing its reputation as a seat of learning and enlightenment. Aside from the practical merits of the question of military force and equipment, this fear seems unnecessarily exaggerated. The University will be termed reactionary by very few for supporting a camp which the government considers of value in the maintaining of an army, for with Mexican intervention imminent, and a standng force too small...
...Southern-bred people are prone to pat themselves on the back for the genuine hospitality that they show to strangers and to slyly imply that Northern people are not guilty of showing this same hospitality. There can be no more certain proof of genuine hospitality than that shown to the Commodores by the Harvard student body and faculty on their recent visit to the Crimson stronghold. It is true that a great part of these favors was shown by Southern men, yet the entire university population was eager to make the stay of the Vanderbilt warriors a pleasant...
...mediocre class. The clever phrasing of the editorial on the abandonment of hat-bands ought to assist in impressing upon the mind of the College the necessity of democratic reform. The naturalness of Mr. Viet's criticism of Jules Verne is refreshing; and at the end of his skit, "Pat Gallagher's Hundred Dollar Bill," he employs the method of suggestion with good result, because he has not run it into the ground in the earlier part of the composition. Mr. Nickerson's "Defence of Musical Comedy" is commendable both in matter and expression. There is a good deal...