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Word: thinge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...independent" man who does all this would be a cross between a boor and a fool. When "Ossip" shows the necessary connection between independence and such actions he certainly will show how unsatisfactory a thing independence is; but in the mean while the old prejudice in favor of it will remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM." | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...advantages are obvious. It gets fellows together, and is pleasant socially. It trains men to sing, and prepares them for the regular Glee Club; and then, too, it is sure to produce a Class Song, a thing that is at present much needed in our class. I understand that the '79 Glee Club tried very hard to get a good class song, but, failing in-its attempt, was obliged to accept one offered by a man of but modest musical accomplishments. There are several men in the class who have good voices, and, because they are only Freshmen, they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...studies for them without consulting their own wishes, give them no chance to learn anything outside of books, treat them as mere cramming machines, and then, after this process has gone on ten or a dozen years, you suddenly remove all restraints and say, 'It is a very difficult thing to lay out a course of study properly, so use all wisdom, and Heaven bless you, my dear.'" Here my aunt gave an explosive snort of indignation. "What wonder," she continued, "that half the number wish to enjoy their sudden freedom, and rush for what you call soft electives, while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY AUNTS VIEWS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...know, but wait and see. It is a new thing, and attractive from its novelty, but I tell you a feeling is rising against it. Your cousin Ned writes from Exeter that most of his class and of the class below him are going to Yale. That is a new step for Exeter, and what does it mean? Why, that the parents are growing suspicious of Harvard's present system, and prefer to send their boys somewhere else. Now, if this is the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY AUNTS VIEWS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

CARTOONS are now in order with college papers. The Courant has tried two, and the Era has depicted the disastrous effects that the cap and gown produces on Ithaca's inhabitants. As the mania seems to be travelling westward, we may expect the next thing in this line to be a picture of the Niagara Index board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

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