Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result, on the whole, in a saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course is very apt to regard with horror any toleration of the use of the ubiquitous "trot," and to set down such a liberty as a moral sin. What seems the most absurd manifestation of this sort of prejudice is the custom in vogue among the professors of Lehigh University, where the text books in use are immediately changed as soon as a "pony" is found. A standard which holds up the antique methods of classical training...
...university spies or night police, who vigilantly watch and report to the proctors all escapades they discover. Fines are inflicted for not wearing the cap and gown, for smoking, playing billiards after nine o'clock, and finally, says the Graphic, "the driving of tandem is the eighth deadly sin." So our friends at Oberlin can console themselves with the knowledge that their college is not the exclusive home of blue laws; Oxford presses them close in the race-backwards...
...dark curtain of sin...
...they wist of the sin...
...there is some hope of your becoming famous. Above all, keep trying. You will sometimes feel like relaxing for a moment, and saying or doing something natural. Don't! It would be ruinous. The chances are ten to one you would say something commonplace, and that's a cardinal sin, you know. Above all, keep trying...