Word: sop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate is by far the most readable since the '90 board took charge of the paper. All of the articles are short, and most of them bright and entertaining. The first editorial discusses the new regulation in regard to registration. After condemning this rule as a possible "sop to Cerberus," the leader closes as follows: "We admit the principle of the resolution is indisputably correct, but we protest against it as rank injustice unless it be accompanied by longer recesses." The system of special reports is next criticised as "carried greatly to excess," so that many are crowded into...
BOSTON THEATRE.- "Dockstader's Minstrels" Master ???? Boy Sop...
Last the perfunctory remarks on the appearance of the book, a sop to those cerberi of literature who never think of leaving their post on the outskirts of bookdom and opening a volume, but confine their admiration to the outsides of gaudy editions; these will be glad to know that the book is handsome to the view, while the reader will be pleased to find the binding solid and the type clear...
...have proved a doubtful success. Without wishing to reflect at all upon the managers, for the lack of management displayed, we do desire to register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation to a few of the students, a sop to Cerberus, will not lull the students in general to overlook the inconveniences arising from the preparation of the gymnasium for general social purposes, the danger from a slippery floor, and the misplacement of apparatus. We do not wish to grumble, or seem unreasonable; we would simply uphold...
There was a deal of humor in the cut on the faculty-student preliminary conference, that appeared in the current Lampoon. To many students, it doubtless seems that the proposed deliberative conference is little more than a "sop to Cerberus," and this opinion is, in some respects, well founded. It is not wise however, to pass too hasty a judgment on this proposed experiment. It is, without doubt, a firm opinion among the students, that some method, can be devised that will obviate the annual conflicts of faculty, athletic committee and students. It is felt by many that a radical...