Word: power
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...life in fullest consciousness of power...
...CONTINUOUS grumble becomes monotonous and loses its efficiency. And it is also true that more than half of the complaints directed against the Faculty might as well be aimed at the stars, as far as they have any power to correct them. However, as the papers pretend to be open to every one, and to be the organ of the undergraduates, now and then grumbling and faultfinding will occur. It is unjust to blame the Faculty for preventing beer in Memorial Hall, or the continuance or discontinuance of Prayers, and yet many are firmly impressed with the belief that...
Right and power and privilege to guess...
...repetition of the old mistake to hold up teetotalism as the highest virtue, and, in regard to our own College, Why, we ask again, should the almost English system of our Commons be defaced by so superannuated an Americanism as the enforcement (to the extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate may not make ale or cider necessary for all, but illness certainly makes it helpful to some, and a friend of ours was advised by a physician on the Corporation to take, as the very best tonic, a pint of porter daily at dinner...
...benefit in his instruction, but also from the difficulty which most persons find in collecting their ideas when distracted by the continual and irrelevant chattering of one who stands almost directly at their side. If they have a thorough knowledge of the question before them, very few possess sufficient power of abstraction to give, when thus disturbed, a clear and succinct answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them to write...