Word: reasoning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would be very undesirable for the societies to do more than nominate. On Class Day each of the two or three distinct sets of class traditions should be represented by certain officers, nominated by the societies with which these traditions are connected; but if for any reason these nominations should be unsatisfactory to the majority of outsiders, they should be able to refuse to elect the nominees and to demand new ones. By a plan like this a balance of power would be established, which would prevent from either side the aggression which is at present resented by both...
...keenest appreciation of Kate McKean's trenchant wit and delicate sense of humor. Employing that same careless freedom with matters of history which Mr. Carey only anticipated her in doing, she shows a novel, if not refreshing, independence of educated opinion, and even of the ordinary processes of reason, in her estimate of the few great men who were so unfortunate as to have preceded her. The whole preface is so thoroughly unsurpassed, so in keeping with the rest of the book, that it were a pity to select any one portion of it to point a review...
...monitor for morning chapel. A bulletin from him appeared this week on the South Entry door of Stoughton, announcing the total number of prayer cuts recorded against each man in his half of the class. Although this idea is novel and entirely original with Mr. Peckham, we see no reason why his method of posting the number of cuts should not be adopted throughout the College. It is certainly a very great convenience for students in general, and would relieve the monitors of many troublesome queries as to the record of individuals, not to mention the influence it would probably...
...attend the efforts of the editors of the paper whose first issue appeared yesterday, it will not be because their efforts are undeserving of success. In spite of the prophecies of their far-seeing minds, we wish them heartily all manner of good fortune. Nor can we see any reason why the fate of their enterprise should be doubtful, unless, perchance, the standard they have set themselves will raise expectations which it will be next to impossible to meet. It is to be regretted that they have taken it so much for granted that the papers already established will treat...
...supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority, - let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, - our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor to improve us by kindly pointing out our faults. So, also, if we find our Connecticut cousins rather unnecessarily patriotic, imbued somewhat deeply with the esprit du corps, or the least bit in the world too frank...