Word: repressiveness
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...pure gold of the feeling that no class should go out into the world's struggle and temptation without thanksgiving for the blessings of the past, and earnest, heartfelt prayer for aid in the future. If this feeling is not strong enough in a class to induce it to repress with just indignation all mockery of an office that ought to be considered one of the most honorable positions that an undergraduate can hold, I think that the minority commit a great error in asking, as a favor, the majority to allow the continuance of an office that is thus...
...feature at Harvard. Yet in our own college circle the elective system has so long been humorously employed as the open sesame to the explanation and causes of every college characteristic, from the undergraduate fondness for homely curs up to the excellence of theses on Primogeniture, that we cannot repress a sceptical smile or two when an exchange gravely explains away or establishes a point in regard to Harvard by that most convenient argument, her elective system...
...appearance was worthy of his strong mind. He was more than six feet high, with broad shoulders, an exceedingly well-built frame, and a handsome bearded face. In more ways than one he resembled Thackeray's "George Warrington." Now, at the termination of this brief career, we can only repress the sad thoughts of "what might have been" by remembering with gratitude that so much has been left us, - that the future aspirants for literary distinction in this country will have before them for an example the life of JOHN RICHARD DENNETT...