Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there seems to be conclusive evidence that it was, it deserves the severest reprehension. The fact that certain persons attempted, by extensive canvassing, to secure the election of their favorites, might in itself be undeserving of blame; but when the class, through its Committee, had pledged itself to abstain from any action which should mar the desired open election, any canvass or combination was not only a gross violation of this pledge, but a direct insult and injury to the class. The qualifications of the candidates cannot at all lessen the justness of this censure, and only the universal satisfaction...
Some may say that there are many books in the Library besides those connected with our studies, and that from principle the students would abstain from studying on Sunday; but there are so many students in college who can see no harm in studying on that day, that it is not to be supposed that this large body of men would respect a principle that they do not acknowledge...
...young ladies and gentlemen shall not quarrel, for we read that "scuffling, noisy sports, and disorderly company" (whatever that may be) are at all times strictly prohibited. Drury is even ahead of Dartmouth in the way of reforming college morals. To quote again from the rules: "Students must wholly abstain from all profane, vulgar, or unbecoming language. They must not use any intoxicating liquors as a beverage, nor go to any billiard or bowling saloon...
Amherst.- AN Amherst sophomore has been summoned before the president and informed that his removal from college would be required for "rushing." The class, however, pledged to abstain from disturbances, and he is conditionally allowed to remain...
...manners, cannot fail to excite the admiration and emulation of his inferiors, no matter how much the jealousy of those inferiors may lead them to decry him. He is a fitting head for the great social body beneath him; and if his fortune will permit him to abstain from work, - by work I mean daily exertion whose ultimate object is bread-making, - he may be far more useful to the world than if his tastes and inclinations were fettered by business. But he must never be idle. Noblesse oblige. He must constantly exert himself to maintain with dignity the position...