Word: signs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...case, the virtue might be utilized in this way: on each form used in the application for rooms, a line or two might be printed to the effect that the applicant desired, for his own occupation, the rooms named on the list. Each man should be required to sign this certificate as a necessary condition of being considered an applicant, and thus, at least, the "friend" system would be prevented...
...sign of northern...
...Aphrodite beckons with a sign...
...instructors in regard to this matter. At other colleges it is different. At Amherst, at the beginning of the present college year, Dr. Hitchcock, the supervisor of the physical education of the students, caused to be circulated in the Freshman class a paper by which all who signed were bound to neither smoke nor drink. Such a proceeding here would seem absurd. Few would sign; those who did would be influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief in its necessity or advantage. But it would not alone be absurd; it would...
...considerable part of the students, whose ambition is not great, nor incompatible with occasional excess. Their position is such that they lose no friends, if they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they eat too much; no particular harm results in either case except to the individual...