Word: respective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Senior class debates have been successful in one respect at least, they have developed a real fourth of July orator. Witness: "the great American Eagle stands with one foot in Alaska and the other on Cape Cod; dips its tail in the St. Lawrence and drinks from the Gulf of Mexico."-(Amherst Student...
...Rigid Constitution gains in influence by age, and its permanency is shown by the fact that amendments carried in the legislature are usually rejected by the mass of the people The magic of self-love increases the respect felt for it ; but it is weakened by becoming a less adequate expression of the growing people's needs. The two great defects of the American Constitution are the absence of a uniform law of marriage, and the method of electing a president ; but so complicated is the machinery for altering the constitution that a reform in these points is hardly possible...
Unfortunately for our prophets honor and fame, however, this year the custom of ages will be given up. For once the proper respect will be paid to the departed great; the birthday of the hero of the American Revolution will be honorably observed. On this day no recitation will be held, the college will be closed, even University 5 will be silent and deserted. The church bells will toll and college prayers will be suspended, in short there will be such a suspension of work and labor that we doubt the probability of having the walks cleaned of snow...
...freshman has undergone an almost startling development, and has become a much more appreciable quantity in college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged from...
...east. Never-theless it is undoubtedly true, that ladies can travel alone better in the west than in the east, for as a far western said. "We have not that super-abundance of females as with you, therefore when they do come, they are regarded with more respect." We have always believed that ladies can travel alone anywhere in this country, with very little trouble or danger, and it is gratifying to meet one of the sex that says...