Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...caused any feeling of bitterness in any of the invited guests present; that our Autocrat, the most genial of men, and, surely, the most delicate of satirists, should have been deemed the offender; and that the one to whom offense has been given is Princeton's honored head. We understand that Dr. McCosh is aggrieved over the stanza which we print in another column, over the fact that no Princeton representative received an honorary degree, and over Dr. Brooks' discourse of Sunday night last...
...easily removable. The offensive lines were not directed at Princeton, as they were interpreted, but at the general consternation now prevailing among sectarian institutions. As for the second complaint, it was impossible twice to bestow a degree upon Dr. McCosh, and Professor Young's absence from the anniversary, we understand, cost...
...breaking up of a modest social gathering. Again it is urged that the present system of surveillance is a bad one. But is this true? Are the proctors put in the buildings to report disturbances or to prevent them? Most assuredly the latter. We are given to understand, from good authority, that the faculty does not wish to hear of breaches of discipline in the college dormitories, but that they want the proctors to protect from molestation the men who take rooms in those dormitories and mind their own business. Men should remember that a college room is not like...
...understand from good authority that a number of freshmen returning to Cambridge after the Exeter game of Wednesday last, created considerable disturbance in one of the Cambridge horse-cars. Some members of the class of ninety it seems, have yet to learn that manhood does not consist in "talking big" and making a noise. "A word to the wise...
...understand that the contributions for the fund with which it is intended to build a new Scientific School building, are so far very encouraging. We have often dwelt upon the insufficiency of our Scientific School as an institution, but not upon its accommodations. It seems, however, that the matter has been grasped from the latter standpoint, and that with a new building a reaction for the better upon the Scientific School itself is expected. The philosophy is good; for noblesse oblige. We must therefore take an interest in this new enterprise, and trust that a beneficent alumni, stimulated...