Word: reproof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...destroying the character of Class Day. Last year a goody was overheard boasting that she had twenty yard tickets. She had gone to each man in her entry and asked for "just one for herself." Tradesmen's clerks about Harvard Square employ the same tactics. No word of reproof is needed in regard to such carelessness...
...Harvard lad who is permitted to assist in editing an undergraduate journal, and yet does not know the difference between a communication and an editorial, and charges upon editors the errors of their correspondents, begs piteously that we will hereafter allow him to prattle about Mott Haven without reproof. Ever ready to accommodate, we readily grant the boon, and also go still farther by engaging a new acquatic correspondent who will hereafter furnish to The Spirit a hebdomadal letter on Harvard rowing, couched in the style so dear to the heart of the aforesaid petitioner." - Spirit of the Times...
...obtain a duplicate copy for several weeks at least, we may imagine what inconvenience will be suffered by two hundred men on account of the ungentlemanly action of one man. Such carelessness, if we speak charitably, or selfishness, if we give the right name, ought to meet with open reproof and penalty, and we regret that the offenders, who have on several occasions purloined books from the library, have not had their offence made known to the public. An absolute entailment of all library privileges for a long time would not be too heavy a punishment for their utter disregard...
...discourtesy of several men in taking bathrooms out of turn at the gymnasium, should meet with the severest reproof...
...task for handling our correspondent's letter too severally. We are told that our claims to age and experience are not sufficient to entitle us to the right of assuming the guidance of the university in its religious matters, and, we are sorry to add, our critics couch their reproof in very energetic terms...