Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...there any rule of morals, or even a sophistical argument by which it can be proved that a promise made to the editor of a college paper is to be broken if possible...
...that some Freshmen must have been guilty of the deed, and the enraged Juniors resolved, if possible, to fix upon the man. It pains me to be obliged to relate their ill-success. The Freshmen, when examined singly by the visiting committee appointed for the purpose, displayed, as a rule, the most firm and unblushing fronts. Some few instances of sheepishness there were, to be sure, and one Freshman, on the entrance of the urbane investigators, bashfully retreated to his bedroom, whence he was dislodged with some difficulty. All admitted the meanness of the act, and several gentlemen could express...
...Astor House, New York, on the evening of the 17th. The Harvard Club was represented by Messrs. Tyler and Hodges. Although the meeting was of great length, but few vital points were discussed. A resolution against the proposed ten men and ten innings was adopted, and the rule allowing underhand throwing was abolished, and that of the Convention of 1870 substituted...
...cold room; but we should not have nearly so much to complain of on this score if we would only throw up our windows now and then, and not try to raise the temperature of an atmosphere of carbonic-acid gas and tobacco-smoke. If we observe this simple rule, and are not very unfortunate in our choice of a room, we cannot deny that there is hardly any time so good for studying as a bright winter morning, or any time so good for reading as the "tumultuous privacy" of an evening snow-storm...
...another class is not? If a line must be drawn somewhere, then extend the privilege to every student. It is absurd to maintain that this week one is incompetent to judge of his moral welfare, but the next week competent to do so. One student is, as a general rule, no better qualified to decide upon such matters than another. A question of age should no more be taken into consideration here than in the assignment of scholarships...