Word: impression
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...half a dozen young rascals 'cut up' and disgrace themselves, there is no end of complaints of 'Yale impiety' and 'Harvard indecency,' thus inculpating a thousand young men in the guilt of half a dozen. We have spoken of this matter before, but we wish we could again impress on the minds of the scandalized exposers of college corruption that the majority of us are real good fellows who are trying faithfully to smother all the vice that is in our midst; that our instructors are Christian gentlemen who are ably seconding our efforts; and that the most discouraging thing...
...attend at morning and evening prayers for thirteen days I was suspended from my seniority. I am glad you do not indulge in long and powdered hair," he continued. "They gave me a private because I refused to cut off these shining locks." He was evidently trying to impress upon me that he was one of the "nuts...
Finally, I beg you to continue to impress the necessity of docility upon the boating-men of the College; they have been joined to their idols long enough. I enclose my card, and beg permission only to subscribe myself
...view of the great interest and importance of the next Presidential election, we would earnestly impress upon those of our readers who have just come of age, or who will do so before November, the duty of qualifying themselves to vote at an election in which the best interests of the country are so deeply concerned. For this purpose we have made, from Prof. Parsons's "Rights of a Citizen of the United States," the following resume of the qualifications required in those States from which most of our students come. In all the States a person must...
...will he do when he leaves college, and finally settle down into some hard-working, long-suffering, and perhaps starving country lawyer or doctor. Such a life does not pay. Go you forth into the world; keep up the good opinion you now have of yourself; try and impress others with the same idea; and if your aims in life are not altogether attained, console yourself by thinking what you could do if you only would; and above all, keep your aims low, for "men of lofty aims" are never happy...