Word: virtuouse
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...which has not yet been shown. The only objections are lack of precedent and possible lack of self control and dignity by the class at such a supper. The former amounts to little. The latter would be urged by no one who knew the perfectly-proper and dismally-virtuous tendencies of '85. She can be trusted anywhere, (e. g., at even a Wilde lecture), and if once we were united as a class, we might come to properly appreciate the error of our ways, and come forward then and do our share towards supporting Harvard's as well...
Around the guiltless, virtuous head...
...exist a student so disloyal to the college, so untrue to all her better instincts. If it is true, it is a truth to make one blush for her sex." Just think of it! "Blush for her sex!" I don't believe an Amazonian virago could have felt more virtuous indignation if the postman had handed her a billet-doux without a coat-of-arms on the envelope...
...there is the report of a sermon of a celebrated divine. The reverend gentleman undertakes to show that the state of morals of Harvard suffers by comparison with that of colleges where co-education exists. The article is so rabid in its denunciation of Harvard as a school for virtuous young men, and so laudatory of the pure and virgin-like atmosphere of institutions where young women exert their elevating and refining influence on the beatic youths, whom by daily converse they keep from the sins that would condemn them to the eternal torments of the wicked...
Emile Zola is writing a new play for the Odeon; the manager has asked him to be as discreet and virtuous as possible, so that they may announce the play as one to which any young girl might bring her mother...