Word: vulgus
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...Wednesday evenings can be made into a general gathering of the three dormitory groups and can become a tradition of the new halls. Freshman singing is excellent for developing the musical powers of the singers,--and it tends to preserve the dormitories from the visits of the profanum vulgus...
...vulgus" and the "populus...
...influence exerted upon society by the silent man is irresistible; his very silence is a proof of wisdom. But let him break through his reserve, and his doom is sealed; henceforth he has lost his dignified-exaltation, and become one of the mobile vulgus. There is deeply implanted in the human heart a feeling that to speak, to write, is a sign of weakness, of lack of self-reliance. It shows that one's own approbation is not sufficient unless that of others be superadded. And there is a dim belief that the speaker, as Socrates says, is moved...