Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Such occurrences can hardly be prevented but by careful use of lock and key. The College does what is necessary in providing strong doors and locks; it is for us to put them to the proper use. Unfortunately these are not isolated cases, but last year there were several serious losses through the same negligence. We cannot be too careful in excluding pocos, pedlers, and all of that guild from our Yard...
...might look a little chagrined when we told them that there would be no dancing and hugging about the tree; but it would be manly and straightforward, and we could no longer be accused of cant. But there is a question where this principle applies in a much more serious manner. I refer to the question whether the chaplainship is now anything more than a solemn sort of blasphemy. This is not a subject on which it is best to argue, but let any one examine the feeling with which this office is regarded in his own mind...
...second method was to form the club by a few of the prominent chess-players in College meeting together and organizing the club by themselves, then, after the club has been thus formed, of electing in the rest. To both these methods, however, there are serious objections. In the first method there is a probability that those may be chosen to have control of the club who take no interest in it at all, but were simply chosen on the spur of the moment; and the second is open to the objection that the club might get into the hands...
...matter of dark entries is becoming serious, and demands the attention of the College authorities. Now, when it becomes dark so early, the dormitory entries need lights much earlier; yet we are left to grope and stumble through them till long after every breakneck combination of circumstances has been repeatedly stumbled over, and profanity has become fashionable. We look for a change for the better in this matter, and trust that it will not have to be effected through the College circumlocution office...
...against the haste with which most of the reports of the Montpensier collection seem to have been written; but perhaps it is well to indicate, rather roughly at first, those pictures that seem to rouse deeper attention than the others, and to be the most likely to repay further serious study. This is all that we, at least, attempt. Care must be taken here, as always in studying works of art, to distinguish between excellences or defects of execution, - the language of art, - and those of thought and feeling which the language clothes. The former requires not only vast knowledge...