Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...judge that such practices as "burning physics" and "cane rushes" are by no means allowed to die out. On the contrary, every year witnesses additions to the number of meaningless ceremonies. From the Chronicle we learn that '74 in Michigan University is addicted to this sort of thing...
...traditionary and time-honored custom; but because it was time-honored, we cannot believe that it was entirely the fault of the students, and therefore the removal of the venerable instructor to a field where his great abilities will be better appreciated may have been the right and proper thing to do. But this does not make it at all clear that there ought to be no instruction whatever in this particular study. How can this growing evil, then, be remedied? Certainly not by the present action of the College. For just as matters in that quarter are shown...
ADVERTISERS sometimes have a peculiar sense of the fitness of things. A glance at the columns of some of our exchanges prompts this remark. We find offered therein for the undergraduate's inspection almost everything, which we had supposed the undergraduate could never, under any circumstances, want, and if he did want, could n't use. Advertisements for dime novels are not surprising; any college which supports several literary societies and runs a paper or two ought to have an abundance of dime novelists: but why parties should deliberately continue to advertise in organs of colleges most opposed...
Among other things, he mentioned that he was the first occupant of my room (the number is purposely suppressed), and while he was telling with great pride of once stealing a fat turkey, the glory of Cambridge poultry-yards, and roasting it in the very fireplace by which we were sitting, I had fully made up my mind to break my long silence and ask him if he knew anything about Eliot's Indian College or Harvard's only Indian graduate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck Indus, when the door suddenly opened, and, on looking around, I discovered that it was broad daylight...
...with general respect. Various circumstances combine to cause this change, but all have their root in reflection upon the part of the students. They see that men of learning are esteemed in society; or perhaps they ask themselves the question, "What am I to do after graduating?" Any such thing does all that was necessary, that is, excites thought; then the boyish prejudices by degrees grow weak, and a new public sentiment, more favorable to scholarship, takes their place. Unless the students really feel the necessity or the dignity of learning, there can be no great advance...