Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Warner, L. S. spoke first on the negative. Nobody supports the spoils syste; it is felt to be bad, but how shall the difficulty be met? The question under consideration is as pleasing to the ordinary young man as the smile of his best girl. How well "efficient officials" sounds. A large number of democrats are efficient, if not, the fear of removal will make them so. To be sure, there are the republicans who held the offices four years ago. They are just as experienced, but to put them in the places of democrats would be rotation, and that...
...examinations. Some men, over-flowing with the jubilant spirits of youth, have seized this opportunity to "play tricks" on their follows, and have sent them bogus notices of their marks signed with some instructor's name. There is something essentially funny in this playfulness. We can hardly suppress a smile when we think of the sensation experienced by a man who has really earned A and receives notice that his mark is E. The thought of the annoyance to arise from the investigation that will follow, both to him and the instructor, is almost irresistible. However, with a severe effort...
...suffering from the apprehension of being dropped. All the monitors with whom I have came in contact have been very gentlemanly and considerate. I don't see why a proctor should not read the books if he chooses, and if he finds something amusing why he should not smile or even "snort and chuckle" if he likes. I am sure I would do so if I were in his place. It seems to me the individual who wrote the attack yesterday morning showed only his own disagreeable feeling toward monitors and not those of the majority...
Princeton without Dr. McCosh will be a good deal like the play of "Hamlet" with Hamlet in the adjoining county. This smile is somewhat threadbare, but it just fits the case.- N. Y. World...
...merest children. The performances of last Monday night can find no sanction in the minds of candid and impartial men. The class of '91, represented by a number of its uncontrolled spirits, has made for itself an unenviable reputation early in its career. If these men believe because men smile at their follies and do not treat them as their fathers did before they came to college, that therefore their actions are meritorious, they are very much mistaken, and have much yet to learn, although they are freshmen. This matter ought to be looked in the face squarely...