Word: transgressive
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...that (due to the crowd) a sharp walk of three and three-quarter miles per hour is even a shade more than improbable. In Threadneedle Street, in the city, it can be said that the people, who swarm like ants, go faster than the presumptive vehicles that dare transgress its sanctity. In England all fares are paid according to distance; taxis are cheaper than in New York...
This is the situation of Anthony Patch and, as it is to be expected his story is one of a rapid descent from a position in which he keeps within most of the bounds of convention through lack of daring or leisure to transgress to a position in which, with a very unconvincing attitude of insouciance, he has given up every pretense of being more than a beast...
...habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border of the precipice where the arch enemy of souls finds his greatest hunting ground. It is the first step then that is accountable for all. Once make yourself a drunkard...
...distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry will be removed. At Cornell and other colleges where this system has been tried the results are for the better...