Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...soul but you would I for worlds the secret tell...
...dethronement of Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary" disposition and bent have been to all outward appearances usurped by their exuberant successors. The Sophomores may repudiate our proffered condolence, and tell us what we call usurpation is voluntary abdication. In such case, we beg their pardon. We are sometimes influenced by the memory of our own Sophomore days, which, passed as they were under the old regime, we delight in recalling...
...needed no doctor to tell me that his brain was most sadly confused...
...indorses this action can object to voluntary writing on the part of the student. As was said above, our readers are good critics; and if they do not, like our instructors, examine so closely as to discover all the superfluous adjectives and phrases, at any rate they can tell whether a piece be true or false, dull and stale or lively...
...after a punch, when the royal upper-classmen had been served from a huge bowl by trembling Freshmen, their fags, dragged from warm beds to grace their lords' festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed a boy again. With what glee did he tell of Harvard's one fire-engine, first at all fires (when perfectly convenient), drawn by a crowd of yelling students, and whose cold streams, when fires were less frequent and the student mind needed gentle relaxation, were often turned upon the windows of obnoxious tutors...