Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Certain evening lectures and readings are very much disturbed by the systematic tardiness of the audience, who come streaming in during the first five or ten minutes without any respect for the feelings of the lecturer, first of all, as well as of those of the persons already assembled. When an hour is posted for a reading it is everybody's duty to be on time or stay away, and not to prove a public nuisance by coming into a room in the middle of the evening, and then deliberately climbing down to the seats farthest removed from the door...
...given. The many and imperative reasons for the existence of these societies are half unanswered, half ignored. Our college societies supply an undoubted social want in student life. In this - in principle - they are perfectly justifiable and commendable. Many criticisms, however, are just. Much in college society life, in respect to tendency and spirit, could well be reformed. But the abolition of the social unions of students in clubs is not the way to accomplish this result - and this abolition is the legitimate outcome of Mr. Aiken's arguments. The book, however, is well worth reading by all college...
...very gratifying to note that the custom of hazing is rapidly losing its hold here. The course of the present sophomore class has generally been very commendable in respect to that, and should '86 in turn frown upon that time-honored, though barbarous custom, Yale would forever afterwards be relieved from every reproach from that source...
...understand that a certain freshman professor informed the class that "rushing" was the cause of Harvard's superiority over Yale in point of numbers. Now with all proper respect for this professor, we believe that there are certain other fully as potent reasons that are patent to the most casual observer. It has, we believe, been distinctly stated that the faculty positively could not allow larger classes to enter since they have not the accommodations either in rooms or instructors for them. It should be remembered, let us mention right here, that Harvard's classes always sound much larger...
...University Crew. During the last year his first book, entitled "Exeter, School-days, and Other Poems," was published by subscription, and it is to be regretted that many of the subscribers have neglected to take and pay for their copies. The book is well made in every respect, and those who subscribe ought to call at King's bookstore and get their copies. The book has been commended by Prof. Francis J. Child, Rev. Dr. Frederic H. Hedge, John Boyle O'Reilly and Gov. Chas. H. Bell of New Hampshire...