Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR FACULTY : I write to you to ask you if you wouldn't make the proctor in my entry behave himself. In the first place, when he passes me on the stairs, he invariably winks at me, a thing which I don't even allow one of the instructors to do, (unless I've got a condition); besides he is wretched homely, and smokes cigarettes, which you know is not at all comme il faut, and I don't see how you ever came to make a Yale graduate a proctor. His room, of course, is right above mine...
...inter-collegiates coming in examination week is embarrassing. We believe that the same thing is true at Harvard. It remains to be seen which faculty is most considerate of its students - [Acta...
...easily understand how, amidst the pressure of senior work, a man is tempted to put off a thing which seems to him of such little importance. But even if he does not believe in the utility of class lives he must remember that it is one of the customs of the college, and takes but a small sacrifice of personal feeling to follow...
...thing was resurrected...
...that curious thing of theirs...