Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...woman cannot help reading anything that looks like a love-letter, and I thought it prudent to enter in time to prevent my desk from being ransacked. After they had gone, I found that the nose of my bust of Goethe was broken, my O. K. cookies had been eaten, and a mustache had been painted on my favorite photograph of Mary Anderson. Do you wonder that I fell into a gloomy train of thought? 'This Class Day,' said I to myself, as I looked down upon the throng below, 'is a resting-point in a man's life...
...stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed out that they could be well-nigh avoided by prudent conditions. It might be provided that money accruing from scholarships must be spent for educational purposes approved by some designated officer of the college. Recipients might be required to sign some such paper as the following, devised by the late Mr. Hodges: "Although this beneficence is unconditional, I hereby signify...
...Some, like the boat-clubs, die a lingering death for want of victims; others are kept alive by men who are too zealous to take-warning by the fate of others, or too blind to heed the smiles and sneers of their classmates. The prudent man will stand aside, and let others make martyrs of themselves. Farewell, Freshman. We have more to warn to-night. Remember the watch-word, Policy! Farewell...
...hoped to thank the instructors for their promptness in returning the marks on the Semi-annuals in an editorial which should surpass that of our sister paper in both ardor and length. We thought it prudent, however, to wait the arrival of the marks before acknowledging their receipt, and we do not regret our caution. The first marks did, indeed, appear like the harbingers of the much-desired reform, but their appearance has been followed by a calm of such protracted suspense that it has become impossible for us to carry out our cherished plan of an eloquent editorial. That...
...students would form the desirable habit of making use of the Library, if during these winter days that use were not restricted to the few hours of daylight. The introduction of gas into the building increases the liability to fire; but other great libraries have found it prudent, so there can be little hesitation on that ground. It is safe to say that before long Gore Hall will be open evenings...