Word: stands
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This was too much for me. To be taken for a Freshman! I could not stand it. I tried to rise to show him gracefully but firmly to the door. He seized me by the coat-collar and shook me until I thought this spirit of 1677 would never...
...their consideration, if they begin to show a kindly and proper regard for each other's rights (as the members of any one society are perfectly justifiable in doing), denounce their proceeding as "bargaining"; stigmatize the majority, when your candidates are defeated, as a "coalition"; loudly declare that you stand immovably on the principle of "intrinsic fitness" (yourselves being the judges as to where the same resides); and, as a final and convincing proof of your independent and manly spirit, secede and have nothing to do with your unappreciative class...
...question of the percentage to be required this year from Seniors has finally been decided. The old rule, requiring simply an average of 50 per cent for the year, has been suffered to stand...
...Acta Columbiana comes to the rescue of the Freshmen who are unable to relieve their overcharged spirits by singing the old stand-by "Bingo," because no rhyme for eighty can be found. It proposes the following classical substitute...
...pamphlet containing the elaborate exposition of our elective system, page 5, under the heading "Latin," stand the following words:- "Tacitus. - Suetonius. - Juvenal. Three times a week...