Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...explained with critical care. The great fault seems to be that hazing is a fine art at Michigan, and the press has seen fit to throw round a little sport a background of mysterious horror. "That the Faculty should repeatedly say, 'Rely upon your own judgment,' and then should submit us to that character of discipline which belongs to the preparatory department, smacks strongly of inconsistency." The students at Michigan overrate their judgment; when the childish tricks of the preparatory department are played in the College, the rules for children must be laid upon the big boys...
...respectfully submit to the authorities that the practice of putting tarred bands around the trees is demoralizing. Three Seniors wasted a whole afternoon, the other day, in betting on the order in which the different bugs would get above...
...voluntary prayers would have been the alteration made. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson has objected that prayer is the highest act of which the human mind is capable, and that we ought not to be deprived, or allowed to deprive ourselves, of prayer in the morning, we would like to submit that it is not we who pray, - we prefer to do that in our rooms, - but a single member of the Faculty, while the most of his hearers are far from being in a devotional frame of mind. Understanding that the gentleman in the Board of Overseers who decided...
...banish them all to Chelsea, - I can think of nothing worse. Some of the older ones in the business must have got rich by this time. Nobody knows how many Credit Mobilier shares they own. They are one of the drawbacks of student life, but we must submit to them as to so many other extortions. It is with a view to making this submission easy that I offer the following plan. It is the joint production of myself and chum. We thought it carefully out in accordance with the canons of taxation. It is arranged, you will notice...