Word: thief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another case of larceny at the gymnasium has been followed by the apprehension of the supposed thief. There is much severe criticism on the manner in which the gymnasium authorities have acted in this matter...
Yale has met with a repentant thief. The following note was left with a bundle of clothing at a door in Farnham. "December twelve, dere sur, i send back your clothes, i took them last nite. i never stole nothing before, i feal so bad i never will steel again...
...articles taken are comparatively valueless and will serve the purpose of ornaments in students rooms, more perfectly than in the gymnasium. In plain Anglo Saxon, however, a student who is guilty of this practice, is either a kleptomaniac, and deserves a term in the insane asylum, or a thief, and should be made to feel the hand of the common law. Desirous as we are for subjects for editorials, we can but blush for Harvard when we have to refer again and again to these questionable operations, first in the library, again in Memorial, and again in the gymnasium...
...class hope thereby to obtain an unfair advantage over their classmates. College honor would surely condemn a man who cribs so as to obtain a scholarship, or to gain a position on the Phi Beta Kappa. Such a motive would mark a man in the estimation of everyone, a thief and hypocrite. Cribbing cannot be prevalent among men who desire to become scholars. The very earnestness of their efforts, and the nobility of their ambition would war against such methods...
...have left us, it behooves us to guard it well, and to teach men who are willing to decorate their rooms at the expense of a college institution, that such contemptible practices will not be tolerated. Though, of course, a man who is willing to proclaim himself a college thief from the walls of his room is beyond the influence of mere sentiment. For our part we guarantee that one "baby," whose name we have, shall stop this display of puerile aesthetics; and we will do the same for others detected at this small business if well-disposed students will...