Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with the Glee Club, in regard to the prohibition placed upon it. That sympathy, however, we cannot extend to its refusal to sing at prayers. If intended as revenge, the action must, on second thought, appear petty and childish, and in whatever light we regard it, we cannot but think that it is based on an entirely false notion of the Person to whom hymns are addressed...
...remained in force during the seventeenth century, it is prescribed that if any scholar, being in health, shall be absent from prayers or lectures, except in case of urgent necessity or by leave of his Tutor, he shall be liable to admonition (or such punishment as the President shall think meet), if he offend above once a week. The daily services in the Hall were conducted by the President. In the morning, the undergraduates were required to read in the Old Testament from the Hebrew into Greek, excepting the Freshmen, who were allowed to use their English Bibles...
...really think that I could live forever...
...should consider this latter matter carefully, and feel it our duty, individually, to help to correct all tendency in the opposite direction. Any bitterness of feeling between classes of college men is perfectly unnecessary, we think, as the wrong acts of individual men should not be visited upon their colleges. If collegiate regattas are to breed hatred and coin hard names, they had better be discontinued; but we sincerely hope for such manly, straightforward legislation, in the next convention of colleges, that the difficulties of the past may be cancelled, and those of the future prevented...
...present in a transition period; as such, it deserves every allowance. It would be difficult to state to what extent or in what variations the new system will change the old methods; in fact, the reformers admit they have no definite plan as to extent, but they think, as all who have examined into the matter will agree, that they have struck a rich vein which it will pay to work. The key-note to the new system seems to be, that law is a science; that, considered as a science, it consists of certain principles or doctrines; that...