Word: prurient
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...University reader exempt from this classification. Theoretically we should furnish an approximation to that ideal public which the journalists claim is the sine qua non of an ideal newspaper; practically we are among the consistent devotees of the scare headline; we, too, are afflicted with the prurient curiosity" mentioned by Mr. Storey. Yet the fact that the more stable journals find a considerable sale in the University indicates that we read the lurid sheets for amusement rather than for information...
...choose the right, and yet think it is not necessary to draw a perfectly sharp line between good and evil. They think they may toy a little with sin without harm to themselves; indeed they often believe that every well-educated man should have some knowledge of the prurient and unclean...
...remainder or the number is by no means illuminated with the coruscations of genius. The leading story of the number, "Behind the Curtain," is a whimsical character sketch of an exceedingly prurient young man and a young lady a la mode,-at least we should judge the young man to be prurient, as the point of view is from behind a curtain in the young lady's boudoir. There is a rather vivid description of this room given in the first part, but taken as a whole the sketch reminds one of a judicious mixture of Town Topics and Algernon...
...shut out women from the institution's privileges. Commenting on this, the Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before a parcel of boys...