Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unnecessary promenading. Limit yourselves to your beats as we are limited to our seats, and depend more on vigilance of eye than on pedestrian awfulness. Do not continually pass between us and the windows; and please, please, sweet proctors, hang over our shoulders as little as possible. Don't stand, like the Devil, behind our backs, but pose in the foreground that we may be constantly encouraged by your inspiring presence...
...enough to endure a recital that would be out of place in a Grammar school, and not be shocked; but the writer of this communication seems to have been offended at what is unavoidable and absolutely essential to education, and would permit his personal prejudice to stand in the way of what seems a just and impartial plan of instruction...
...prayer question by the students and the governing bodies, in common discussion, would be advantageous to both sides. Those in power would see more fully the undergraduate opinion. While we, who do not always refuse to be guided by reason, would certainly get benefit from learning the exact stand taken by the Overseers. We might come to see the unreasonableness of our demands, if they are reasonable. It would be much easier to enforce all rules of college discipline, if most of us felt that the rules were just. A meeting for the free exchange of views between...
...last number of the Monthly has an interesting editorial on the conference committee. The writer takes a stand directly opposed to that of a gentleman from whom we recently published a communication. The man in question condemned the committee because of its inaction. The Monthly, on the other hand, holds that the body is a conference committee, and not an executive committee. This distinction is one which must be often reiterated; for we are very likely to forget...
...they would have invented a word to suit the exigencies of future generations, and in addition to freshman, Webster's Unabridged would have contained fresh-woman; but such is not the case, and it would be unseemly in us to try to improve upon the Hindoos. Freshman must stand, and in using it we desire to be understood as referring to the genus fresh homo...