Word: veil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee is to be congratulated on the reforms it has introduced in the manner of keeping accounts, and although perfection has not by any means been attained, we have every reason to expect that hereafter the expenses of our athletic organizations will not be shrouded by the impenetrable veil of mystery and secrecy which has been far too common in the past. It is pleasant to know that for once not a single athletic team is in debt, and that all have some surplus in the treasury. Indeed, good financial management has now become an important factor in the success...
...rhymesters, writers who need not hope for immortality, but the grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that one who here pens more despicable verse will be a greater than Wordsworth. A veil, never to be raised, hides the agony of authorship, more poignant than the sorrows of Werther, with which some poems, now hidden in the brains of their authors and the basket of the editor, have been forged. And yet it is from such a school that the poets...
...tremendous amount of physical strength and the evident ability to eat four meals a day; '88 with a painful regard to dress, lurking signs of the coming moustache, and a general air of owning the college, which perhaps they come rightly by; and lastly '89, - but we draw the veil over the picture of childlike innocence and confidence which '89 would present! Not only would the four classes furnish a field for the scientists, but what realms of delight could be opened by the production of the photographs of the average Annex girl! What curiosity by that of the representative...
...course and as an alumnus. There is no such thing conceivable as being in two fraternities at once. Resignations and expulsions are exceedingly rare; intense devotion to the welfare of the fraternity here and elsewhere is the rule on the part of the members. Over all their operations a veil of general secrecy is cast; the location of the meeting hall is unknown, and the very existence of the fraternity seldom referred to by its members in conversation. Many fellows, moreover, have no friends outside of the fraternity and no more acquaintances than they can help...
...conducted differently by different instructors, and it would be manifestly impracticable to attempt to fix any method of assigning the marks for the year which should be binding upon all. Each instructor, however, can do much toward removing the objectionable features of the present plan by removing the veil which in so many cases enshrouds the assignment of marks, and telling to his section the exact principle upon which he proceeds. One instructor has very kindly taken this course, and the result is that much of the uncertainty which ordinarily worries a man with regard to his final marks...