Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students themselves; for of late there has been much annoyance caused by the thoughtlessness of some students, who consider the reading-room a place for conversation or animated discussion on some point in their text-books. Discussion is very good in the right place, but we would remind these zealots that it is impossible to study while there is such an aggravating noise as is made by a conversation carried on in a loud whisper or in an undertone...
...Haven the "Junior Promenade." This "Promenade" has finally taken place, and from the account which the Courant gives of it we are led to infer that polite society is not the sphere for which the Yale man was created. "We would (sic) like," says the Courant, "to remind some of those gentlemen who took such delight in plunging from one end of the hall to the other in three steps, and bumping everybody on the way, that it would be well to take a few lessons either in dancing or etiquette." We thought at first that this little peculiarity must...
...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 in expressing their opinions, let us merely say, "Their manners, you know, are so delightfully natural!" In conclusion, however, we really must remind our excellent friends - however much we may enjoy their little jeux d'esprit - that we are all more or less bound by social conventions; and the outside and unrefined world are sadly apt not to take insult or invective, as we know it is given, - purely in a Pickwickian sense...
...very often have any of your Boston half-and-half winters, where it is so cold that you cannot keep warm when there is not a "mite" of snow on the ground. Are you not ashamed of yourselves when you see these moonlight nights - in January, let me remind you - going by without the enjoyment of a single sleigh-ride, or anything else which winter should bring...
...forms, and of the thought which must have brought them into being. The splendid limbs of the marble relics of the ancients will carry you back to the days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures of the present day will remind you of hundreds of things which indolence will permit you neither to think for yourself, nor to dig out of the endless pages of a stupid book...