Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic inspiration by the manner of the singers. May a Freshman suggest that such a performance is hardly consistent with the patriotic sentiments of the ordinary man, to say nothing...
...Union, whether we put it under the official wing of the University, or whether we open a saloon in the living room. If the Union as a club must die, it must die--unfortunately. But, at all events, we should not make membership in a club or in a pseudo-educational institution, much less in a club combined with an educational institution, compulsory...
...longer will late wayfarers be compelled to wend their course in pitchy darkness, and never more will Lampy be able to use the "pseudo-lamp-post" as humor for its picturesque cover. These same pillars of illumination have burst gloriously from the embryo, the Gay White Way now dominates our nocturnal existence, and the twenty-four hour day is successfully innovated...
...Mens sana in corpore sano"--or, as the translators will have it. "A sound mind in a sound body"--is a much-slighted adage during the mid-year period. It is disagreeable weather; and fourteen hours of tinkering the mind to a state of pseudo-soundness, seems to please us better than thirteen hours on the mind and one on the body, which more closely follows the wisdom of the adage. To fulfill the sound body there is an excellent and informal exercising class, open to all, previous experience unnecessary, in the Gymnasium daily at 5 o'clock. It requires...
...slave traffic. A social evil law to better the situation is hopeless, for it is unconstitutional. He summed up the fallacies of our present ignorant system as follows: "We turn the entire problem over to police, giving them three distinct powers which they abuse. They are allowed to make pseudo-laws to regulate vice; they are then expected to enforce these laws and punish offenders...