Word: worde
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...hand in a theme corrected, a large deduction from the marks previously assigned is made. That, too, when the professor has acknowledged, on one occasion at least, that it was a matter of small importance. Not so much the good we derive from substituting a synonyme for the word we used before is considered, as the fact that this rule teaches us to be punctual. But why deductions are made from our rank, instead of demerits given to us for disobeying a college rule, is a puzzle. Then, too, a large amount is taken off, - a third of the maximum...
...student bothers himself very little with doctrinal disputation, is careless concerning the opinions of Emerson and Hale, and graduates, as his fathers did before him, supposing that he believes the dogmas of the sect in which he was born; that it is as impossible to express by a single word or sentence the religious characteristics of all the members of a great college as of all the people of Massachusetts; that there are men enough here, from most denominations, who live lives consistent with their principles, to give character to an ordinary sectarian "University"; that not a few leave college...
...conclude, in what we have said it has not been intended to slight the claims of the gymnasium, but simply to say a word for another kind of exercise, which is a favorite with many, but by others is looked on as of little importance...
...with no single word to warn...
...NOTICED in the last Magenta an article commending the practice of roughing (I must accept the word in its new sense), and pointing out the great advantages to be derived therefrom. It seems to me that this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In some circles a man's actions, good or bad, his words, and even his dress, are the objects of sharp ridicule and thoughtless jest, which often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without...