Word: pretext
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from typhoid malaria were sent to their homes. Leave of absence has been granted to any student who has any reason to suspect that the symptoms are upon him and it is said that a number of men have taken advantage of this privilege and have made it a pretext to obtain a recess. Most of the men who have been taken ill with the fever have rooms in different parts of the city, away from the college and the contagion has spread very little in their neighborhoods. The few cases of sickness among men residing on the campus...
...that, owing to the unfortunate action of the overseers, no other conclusion is open to an outsider who has no opportunity of knowing the real facts of the case. But when the Princetonian adds, "notably of the part of it which takes away all restraint upon exercises under the pretext of giving freedom," it is apparent that our contemporary is letting imagination supply the lack of information...
...rate, he does not like to refuse a polite and seemingly slight request. If each senior gives away only two tickets in that way, some five hundred people who are "nobody's friends" come to Class Day and increase the too large crowd. Giving seniors a sufficient pretext for refusing such request for tickets was another reason for making the phrase so sweeping...
...glad to see that the owners of both Beck and Manter Hall have awakened to the need of having strong and efficient fire-escapes. If private owners are willing to make the pecuniary sacrifice necessary for the construction of iron fire-escapes we cannot quite conceive what pretext the college authorities have for leaving the majority of the dormitories in the yard without these safeguards. The most crying need is felt in Thayer, whose light and unsatisfactory construction has been the subject of much complaint for years...
...commemorate a particular event, and substantially it is a trophy, and has no other value except in point of material, and is free of duty,' A basket of cups, won by Mr. L. E. Myers during his recent visit to England, have been detained on the same pretext, but will now, no doubt, be similarly released...