Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this time last year there was a complaint made that one of the instructors in History had refused to tell the men in his elective their marks on the semi-annual examination. We should refrain from repeating the complaint if we had not understood from various quarters that the custom was increasing. It is difficult to discover the especial object in withholding these marks. If a student has not succeeded in passing a creditable examination, it is evidently of the utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application...
...should be strengthened by the satisfactory experience of several successive seasons until it can harden into a fixed tradition, that I account no precaution unreasonable which has a tendency to produce that result. Hence, when a former oarsman urged in one of the college journals that Yale ought to refrain from sending a crew to New London to meet that of Harvard, unless the latter would agree to discountenance the presence of all other crews upon the course during the five days which precede and the five which follow the day of the race (June 27), I earnestly seconded...
...more natural to ask one of the gentlemen from Yale to act as our reporter! All this, however, does not exceed the bounds of decency. Of the second editorial, out of charity to the Courant, which was overcome by its feelings and is now probably repenting at leisure, we refrain from speaking; as we have said, it is a gross personal attack, which must now be causing deep regret to the hasty but gentlemanly editors of the Courant. Everybody is liable to lose his temper when put in the wrong, and we look upon this sad exhibition more in sorrow...
...cannot refrain from commenting on the conduct of an Examiner, who was present at a recitation in English 2 one morning this week. At the close of the recitation this gentleman expressed to the class his dissatisfaction with the way the elective was conducted, advocating reading with expression, and going over less work in the course of the year. The instructor, in defending himself, said that his idea was to go over as much ground in the course as possible, and not to attempt fine elocution and expression in reading. A discussion followed before the division, in which the Examiner...
...University Reporter, from Iowa, publishes the fourth part of a poem entitled "The Tide of Time." It contains a Miltonic account of Eve's little adventure with the serpent, in four columns. We should like to quote them as a whole, but as this is impossible, refrain altogether, for fear of awakening a desire for more, which we could not gratify...