Word: secret
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...contrary, another puzzling subject is given him to work up unaided. In themes, it is said, we are to be instructed in style; in forensics, in the arrangement of arguments. Thus far, however, the promised instruction has been limited to the announcement of subjects and to the secret marking of the forensics, - the marks to be divulged on Commencement...
...vicious practices themselves by keeping the fact prominently in view that they are held unworthy of gentlemen, because some persons in college do not feel that this is much of an objection. But we can at least make men prefer to keep their misdoings secret rather than have the effrontery to boast of them publicly. This is a much more wholesome tone, and one that will do something toward stopping the evils themselves. To parade one's own vicious acts shows either a very childish or else a very debauched frame of mind. It is, then, the duty of those...
...than " state." This is trivial fault-finding. Further he says that our inference that part of his aim was to show that there was little toadyism in college was, as he thinks, intentionally wrong. We are glad that such was not his aim, and willingly withdraw our inference. The secret of how to refute our main proposition lies neither in personalities of the stump-speech sort, nor in a noise about trivial errors...
Sumner was a member of the Hasty-Pudding Club, and it was on his motion that the first catalogue of that club was prepared. When a Senator, it was his custom to make additions to the Pudding library. He and eight classmates formed themselves into a secret society, known to themselves as "The Nine," a title which has since been usurped. From the description of college life in one of Sumner's letters, it will be seen that time has not made many changes, save, perhaps, in the last particular quoted...
...anticipated such a result from casual observation of the two teams before the game. The Tufts men, though perhaps not as heavy as their opponents, were evidently older, and were a wiry set of men. While watching the progress of the game, however, it was easy to see the secret of our success: both sides had some very fine individual players; but the Tufts men did not play well together, while our men did great things by playing well into each other's hands in passing the ball...