Word: reasoning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course is to afford individual help and encouragement, and the books used and the subjects given out will be selected with this object in view. Judging from the subjects which the instructor in this course has given out in the past, those who take English 5 will have no reason to complain, as the New York Evening Post recently complained in regard to the Townsend essay subjects at Yale, that the students are not encouraged to write on live topics...
...improper favoritism on the part of the Captain in selecting the team. When the honor of the University is interested in a game, as it was in that of last Saturday, it is the duty of the Captain to select the players for their superior skill, and for that reason alone. We refer our readers to another column for a full account of the game...
...playing of any kind, and smoking are either strictly prohibited, or their practice must be carried on with secrecy. Not content with these stringent rules for protecting the virtue of the "men" under their charge, the Faculty have forbidden students going to the neighboring town without giving a satisfactory reason, and obtaining permission to do so. If the students to whom these rules apply are men, they certainly are quite able to judge for themselves as to the expediency of playing billiards and smoking; and the infantile regulations by which they are controlled are out of place and ridiculous...
...puerile amusements generally confined to the smaller colleges. Society initiations of a rough character originated among the boys of sixteen or seventeen who were in college when the societies were founded. Now, however, students are much older, and as the Faculty have abolished boyish regulations, we can see no reason why students should not abolish boyish customs. The performances, which some consider so courageous or witty, of blowing up a drain, or mutilating and stealing College property, show first an absence of appreciation of what constitutes gentlemanly conduct, and second, a disposition to return to the boyish and rowdy habits...
...music has a kinship with lolling out of the window and addressing the dispenser of familiar airs in terms of slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates are closed but once in twenty years, yet the vender of melodies rarely ventures through them, conscious that in whatsoever remote corner he may establish himself, the venerable Ubiquity will invite him to depart thence. But in spite...