Word: respected
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...student's room is sacred from intrusion. No master or proctor can insist on entering it, whatever may be his suspicions as to proceedings inside. In this respect Oxford is ahead of Harvard. The regulations meant to discourage dissipation and immorality are directed against the temptations of the town outside the college walls. Students are rigorously restrained from frequenting public houses and saloons; this hardship, however, is mitigated by the privilege of obtaining at cost from the college stores as much wine or spirits as is desired. After all allowances are made for debaucheries in other towns, there are good...
...with all due respect for the author of the editorial from which I have quoted, and his "knowledge of facts," allow me to question the accuracy of his information, and in justice to the janitors previously mentioned, present the other side of the case to your notice. The Rules and Regulations laid down by the College authorities for the guidance of the janitors in the duties of their position contains the following clause...
...departments. Such a course has just been arranged at Yale by the Linonia Society, the first lecture having already been delivered by Professor Sumner. At Yale, too, they complain of the want of just such a hall as we have here, so that, with our superior advantages in this respect, there is no reason why we should not be able to get up as good a course of lectures. The chief difficulty, we know, is to get somebody to take hold of the matter, and we would suggest that some society, with the co-operation perhaps...
...beginning its college career seems to be expected to improve on its predecessors. Whether this expectation is to be realized or not, depends as much on their good behavior when in the recitation-room as it does on their excellence in their mental and physical capacities. Laying aside the respect due to their instructors, which is apparently of trifling importance to some, the annoyance it gives to those members of the class who wish to get some benefit out of what is said, ought to deserve some consideration. Good will and good feeling demand that. We would beg, therefore, those...
Resolved, That we sincerely mourn the loss of one who, by his manly character and his fidelity to duty, by his kindly disposition and his unassuming worth, won, in the brief time he was with us, the respect and friendship of all whose privilege it was to know...