Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...year Examinations, 1878.ANY person who finds two of his examinations in the same group will give written notice of the conflict, at once, at the Secretary's office...
...OSSIP," the writer of "Conceit vs. Custom," in the last Crimson, says that whoever believes that "complete independence is the only position that can be taken by a man who has any self-respect" is apt to be "a disappointed aspirant for popularity"; that such a person "openly depreciate[s] what he inwardly esteem[s]"; that he "blurts out his opinion" and pronounces "unsolicited his views on college life and the motives which he thinks should guide it"; and that "he calls every one a toady who is not of his way of thinking." "Hatred toward the popular," "Ossip" quotes...
...expressed great satisfaction that the College should possess copies of such merit as those Mr. Moore has sent us. Mr. Norton considers these copies a great credit to the artist, as valuable, indeed, as originals; they show extraordinary care and delicacy, such as could have been given by a person of no less talents than Mr. Moore possesses...
...disconsolately at the shelves, in vain straining my eyes for the wished-for book, a youth came along, mounted the step-ladder, and, removing some books on the top shelf, brought from behind them the very book I was looking for. The mystery was solved. Instead of some studious person having the book, it was an extremely selfish individual, who, in order to have the book when he desired it, had deprived many others from using it in the meanwhile. This is done through selfishness. Another cause of our being deprived of books is carelessness : a student finishing a book...
...column of the last number of the Advocate, I noticed a letter from a Freshman, who justly complained that in my report of the subscriptions to the H. U. B. C., only eight dollars had been paid by his class, whereas he himself had paid ten dollars to some person whom he thought authorized to receive it. In answer to this, I should like to say that the account was made out before the publication of the catalogue, and therefore some unavoidable mistakes were made in separating the names according to classes. In looking over the list again I find...