Word: vents
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...usually steady Junior class are said to be cutting recitations to such an extent as to seriously alarm the Faculty. The cause of this delinquency is the feeling which finds a vent in the remark, What is the good of having voluntary recitations if we do not use them? Using voluntary recitations, however, does not consist in cutting unnecessarily; that is abuse. The privilege is given us in order that we may judge for ourselves when it is necessary to absent ourselves, and we certainly ought to be capable of judging. But if we do not follow the dictates...
...grinder by the powers that preside over our studies, the student himself will infinitely prefer the performances of that much-abused personage, to those of the man overhead whose rowing-weights send forth a most distressing discord, half rumble, half squeak, or, still worse, whose religious enthusiasm finds its vent in practising Tabernacle tunes on a reed-organ. No sane person would hesitate to decide that "Just in time for Lanergan's ball" rendered on a good hand-organ by jist the very boy that knows all about that same himsilf, is more worthy of hearing than a disjointed howl...
...same time, wanton destruction of property is in fact condemned by the public opinion of the majority of the undergraduates; and if certain notions of etiquette did not seal the lips of many, this public opinion would be so generally expressed that the persons whose animal spirits find a vent in these periodical disturbances would discover that their proceedings are generally considered rather foolish than heroic. And if they recognized this fact, it is highly probable that they would soon choose some more thoughtful and less injurious method of amusing themselves and their friends...
However, there is an entirely different kind of fault-finding, which, though often not less ridiculous than the former, merits more attention. These ebullitions of college discontent, remarkable chiefly for their number, find vent in the college papers; hence, in order better to judge of them, it might be well to examine a recent copy of the Advocate...
...BOATING man, on being offered a cigarette in front of Parker's, gave vent to the following noble sentiment: "Donshmoke - mushelvatethetoneurthuniverztee...