Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...significance of this action by the students is better understood when it is remembered that there are no secret societies or visible bonds to unite the alumni to the college. This committee is designed to supply in part this lack." -N. Y. Eve. Post...
...College are desirable, resulted in 45 votes for the affirmative, and 25 for the negative. J. H. Huddleston, '86 opened the debate for the affirmative, and G. P. Furber, '87, for the negative, followed by G. F. Davidson, '85, aff., and by H. M. Williams, '85, neg. On the secret ballot on the merits of arguments of principal disputants, the affirmative received 19 votes, and the negative...
...find less self-accusation and less of what is called righteous indignation. For if we came to regard wickedness as misfortune and monstrosity rather than sin, we should not find it necessary to be so vehement in our condemnation of wrong doing, since we should not feel so much secret sympathy with it. Even now, who of us in his heart would not be a rake rather than a hunchback, a villain rather than a fool? In spite of all the moralists, we cannot admire desert or merit as much as the gifts of nature and fortune. There is nothing...
...student members of the committee shall be elected by secret ballots at polls kept open not less than one day. The votes of each class shall be counted by the president and secretary of the class, assisted by a member or members of the faculty appointed by the chairman of the committee...
...which sing the old college songs with all the vigor of their Harvard brothers and "cousins." Then, too, there are the societies. The new student who proves herself worthy of the honor is urged to join the S. D., or the Lasellia Club. The former is very, very secret. The gallant visitor, if his hostess chance to belong to the S. D., of course interprets the letters as the initials for "Seraphic Daisies," but if the hostess be one of the Lasellia Club, he then wrinkles his brow and suggests, "Slighted Damsels...