Word: troops
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...example of coming in late is set, it is soon found to be contagious. Common courtesy both to the instructor and student demands promptness at all recitations, and if a man cannot be fairly promp, let him stay away. It is galling to the instructor to see men troop in one by one after the lecture has commenced. Undoubtedly some of the blame for this tardiness rests upon the instructors who thoughtlessly keep their classes beyond the proper limit, but with a little more effort on the part of the students, the annoyance incident to late attendance would be greatly...
...Princetonian has been afflicted this term with a motley troop of loafers in the editorial rooms, especially on the evening before going to press. Popularity is no doubt a desirable thing to any college organ, but the old adage of familiarity still holds there nevertheless. We have not the least objections to anybody coming into the rooms to consult exchanges and to look up special points of interest, but to use our sanctum all day long as a general rendezvous, which we are sorry to say, has been done by several men, is a little more than can consistently...
...CRIMSON is thankful that it is burdened by no such "motley troop," hindering its labors...
...decent model for the verses he wishes to palm off as poetry; and he would show himself a sort of Cambridge top rather than a Western man of practical sense if he took Harvard poetry as his model. Why, take but our little Callanan Courant, with its troop of girls bubbling with merry verses of pleasure and gayety, or flowing at times with the easy pensiveness of that semi philosophical leisure that gives an attractive weirdness to a commonplace sentiment, or take the Ann Arbor Chronicle, with its keen appreciation of the humorous in verse, with its true, natural unforced...
...minutes before twelve, members of the upper classes on their way to recitation were surprised and dazed at a wonderful sight. Fifteen or twenty men left University at that moment and started on a dead run in the direction of Harvard street. A half dozen more joined the troop at Weld, and as History 2 was just pouring forth its hosts, at least thirty men went from among them on the same excited...