Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rising far above the powerless surge...
...College authorities are powerless to do more than keep such an evil in check, as in past years, by the painful method of dismissing detected students, - usually not the most culpable, - thus perhaps blighting their prospects for life. The responsibility or the credit for breaking up such a custom must rest with the students themselves, especially with the members of the Sophomore and Freshman Classes...
...Faculty, the classes of '75 and '76 were led to promise entire abstinence from hazing; and for the faithfulness with which they have kept this promise they are deserving of praise. '77, too, with a consideration which has won for them the thanks of the whole College, respecting the powerless condition of their natural adversaries, have refrained from offering any of those provocations which have formerly been so successful in inflaming the Sophomore mind. To these three classes, then, belongs the credit of what appears likely to be the final suppression of a custom always unmanly, and often far worse...