Word: suasion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used, and as was the case Monday night, with a good effect. Many a freshman has reason to thank the faculty for their sudden, though genuine interest in his welfare...
...fact that freshmen have been led to keep open house by some agencies more potent than their own inclinations or the exercise of mere "moral suasion" on the part of their elders, we would remark that the days have departed when fear of any summary, vengence from the awful sophomores should have influence on the doings of any freshman...