Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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To this sentiment in regard to work I ascribe what truth there may be in the opinion which I have quoted. To say that the sentiment ought to be corrected would be a mere truism. Of this we may be sure, that in the long run hard work will tell...
NOW college tutors are human beings, although it is the fashion to regard them as diluted demons. Like other human beings, they are subject to prejudice. Like other human beings, they habitually communicate their prejudices to others. And if you make a bad impression upon the first ones with whom...
Lastly, - placed last because we wish to dwell at length on it, - it seems to us that our College journals are to some extent to blame for the false impressions received by those who are only too anxious to enlarge upon them by a malicious push of their reportorial pens...
I am unwilling, however, to accept the statement without a struggle. If there is on the staff of the "comic journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found...
But beside the indefinite nature of the duties of our officers, there is no clear limitation of the rights which the Corporation reserves to itself. If the College is afraid to incur the complete responsibility of providing a boarding-place for those of its students who desire to economize; care...