Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...truth of the first statement is perfectly obvious, even to the novice in educational matters; namely, any small boy that one meets on the streets shows that he is undergoing a process of "mental and moral stunting," traceable, of course, to his application to English in the primary schools. Going further up the scale, can any one observe the enervated and demoralized state of the average foreigner, after a short struggle with our tongue, without feeling what a terrible thing this language is? No remarks need be made about "ye student and his theme," for they always speak loudly...
...second statement of the essay brings to mind the conviction held by the writer, and doubtless by many others, in their earlier years. When we viewed the world from the foot of the spelling class, years and years ago, we were certain that we were smarter than any other member of it. Now we have written proof, that our superior intellectuality was the real cause of our former disgraceful position, and that, in truth, the rest were mere dolts in comparison with us. It was only another case of the ugly duckling without the ugly duckling's good fortune...
...Yale-Princeton game. "We are sorry that lack of space prevented our furnishing our readers with a reprint of the last Princetonian entire. According to our modest opinion, it is the vilest agglomerate of ridiculous moonshine and silly bragging that even that paper has been capable of, and this statement is made, be it understood, with due respect to its former record...
...instructors omitted their lectures to-day." This note suggests to us perhaps one of the pleasantest features of a college course. Where the Record euphoniously says "omitted," the ordinary college student would murderously say "cut." Without "cuts" the college man would find his life almost, perhaps quite unbearable; a statement, which is well proved by the fact that where cuts are not given occasionally, the student is very likely to take them semi-occasionally. Of course the conclusion follows at once that it is policy for instructors to do some "omitting" once in a while to forget to appear...
...CRIMSON'S forty odd exchanges, thirty-two have printed the statement about that facitious bequest of $2,000,000 to Harvard; and still they come...