Word: right
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Then the Editor danced round his sanctum, and laughed right merrily. "Aha! aha!" cried he. "I'll please them all." So he wrote an editorial on Harvard Indifference, cut down the articles and the poem, and threw the correspondence on janitors into the waste-basket; and yet the paper was full, while the other college editors had to write their papers themselves that week. The next morning there was a poster on the front of University Hall, and great was the sensation in the college...
...numerous guide-books of Harvard, Cambridge, Boston, and Cincinnati speak for themselves? Their object was professedly, and properly enough, a financial speculation, and they met with as much success as they deserved. So long as their editor confined himself to such means, no Harvard student had any right to complain of his object. But when he sets himself up as a representative of the University, can we not question his right to do so? Heretofore young men have come to Harvard to study and to fit themselves for future usefulness, and the College has appreciated them according to their devotion...
...gaze of a man in the box on their right...
EVERY student has a right, it is presumed, to invite ladies or friends to come to Memorial as spectators; but when a Freshman stops, turns around in the aisle, and blows kisses at a girl in the gallery, he proves himself to be a fit inmate of the house at Somerville...
...students are of course members of the University, and therefore have a perfect right to obtain their meals at Memorial. But have a certain number of them a right to impose upon their table companions their arguments, reaching nearly to quarrels sometimes, and their discussions, carried on in a high voice, so high as to command the attention of all those sitting at their table and even of many who sit at neighboring tables? Their language, and also their subjects for discussion, are often objectionable to many who sit near them...