Word: senior
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that I am surrounded by disagreeable fellows whom I don't even wish to know, all because of this new idea, so prevalent among the Faculty, of abolishing class distinctions and discouraging class feeling, and of making the privileges of the Freshman even greater than those of the Senior. An undergraduate, even, writing in a late Advocate, harping upon the somewhat stale theme, "When the College is merged into the University," etc., expresses serious objections to class feeling because the outside world, "hard, cold, and avaricious, recognizes no such sentimentalities." What then? Must we make our little college world "hard...
...VASSAR Senior gives as her reason for smoking a cigar that it makes it smell as if there were a man around...
...Senior; must Tutor depart...
...always glad to receive an exchange which is not in the 'ring.' We open it with a sense of security against meeting the 'Enviable Mr. Vassar!' and the means of self-delusion employed by the Vassar Senior pining for masculine society. The University Herald, in its excellent hints to its successors, recommends that a few small items be always set up to be ready to complete a column in case of need. We should judge that most of the college periodicals have the above-mentioned stereotyped into permanencies, and introduce them, if need be, on every page of their publications...
...heroine of this story and these two men, Freshman and Senior, meet while camping out in the Adirondacks. There is always, of course, more or less difficulty for the novelist to find a suitable time for his hero to declare his passion for his heroine. Hughes, however, did a good deed for a multitude of these lesser writers, when he had Tom Brown carry home Mary after she sprained her ankle. Since then it has been the misfortune of many fictitious belles to suffer the same accident, and Bessie Kendall was not exempted from the usual...