Word: sane
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...student himself will infinitely prefer the performances of that much-abused personage, to those of the man overhead whose rowing-weights send forth a most distressing discord, half rumble, half squeak, or, still worse, whose religious enthusiasm finds its vent in practising Tabernacle tunes on a reed-organ. No sane person would hesitate to decide that "Just in time for Lanergan's ball" rendered on a good hand-organ by jist the very boy that knows all about that same himsilf, is more worthy of hearing than a disjointed howl of "Where art thou now, my beloved?" by the unmusical...
...that the Faculty, although it might have the appearance of a body possessing great "solidarity," was nevertheless made up of individual members, who differed almost as much as undergraduates. He exhorted us to try and remember, when we were startled by some unexpected decree which it seemed impossible for sane men to pass, - to try and remember whether the lights burned long in University on the night when that awful edict went forth, and to infer, if it appeared that the midnight oil had been consumed, that a decision had not been reached without some consideration, and that a minority...