Word: respects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...excellent ability, of the most strenuous diligence, of an integrity absolutely impenetrable, and of a benevolence which made his whole life an unceasing ministry of kindness. Those who knew him best knew not that he had a fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect and warm affection of all within the circle of his acquaintance and the sphere of his influence. The community can ill spare so conspicuous an example of conscientious fidelity in so many and so various trusts; and with his successive classes of pupils and his numerous friends he leaves a memory...
...darkest mysteries to the average undergraduate mind that our Faculty should be so backward in paying respect to the memory of great men. Not the slightest observance is paid in this College to Washington's Birthday; the Faculty stopped recitations on the day of Charles Sumner's burial only so long as his corpse was passing the very College precincts, and last Wednesday, when the funeral services of Governor Washburn were being performed in the Chapel no official notice was taken of it by the College, and students - your correspondent among others - were compelled to attend recitations while the bells...
...expenses, the College only furnishing the boat, if my memory does not fail me. One crew, wishing to experiment, bought their boat without any assistance from the University. Two or even three boats are doubtless necessary (though rarely the latter number), but permit me to say, with all due respect, that the imprudence that orders "five new boats" should pay for the same...
...been engaged for the night, to take the book from the Library without getting it charged. In the morning it would be brought back and put in its place as stealthily as it had been taken away. The injustice of such a practice is apparent, and the self-respect of the students should insure its immediate discontinuance...
...photographs, the sitters for which were all horribly conscious that they were "being taken." The expression varies. Some have evidently tried to follow the artist's advice to "look pleasant," and they inevitably do themselves sad injustice. A savage expression or an unhappy one calls for some respect, but the "pleasant" expression is always distressing. In a picture a smile suggests idiocy...