Word: certainally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what keeps toadyism alive, the obvious answer is the desire to be popular. Frankness of expression is not compatible with a certain popularity. Nay, more, if you would be popular, you must not by your silence let it be suspected that you inwardly frown on most or much or even some of your neighbors' modes of thought and action. Silence, because men do not know how much you disapprove, is more feared than open censure, and in the uncertainty your disapproval is overestimated, and in proportion feared...
...inquire for some of the standard books of reference he would find but one copy, which alone has to serve for the constant use of a large number of men. In courses in history and philosophy, especially, there is need of at least two or three copies of certain works. The instructor, when he says to a large division, the majority of whom do not feel like buying a five or ten dollar book for one month's use, that the requisite facts may be found in, for instance, Brodhead's "History of New York," Ferguson's "Handbook of Architecture...
...understand that the Faculty have satisfied themselves that certain members of the Senior class have been abusing the privilege of voluntary recitations. Accordingly this privilege has been taken away from them for the space of two months, and the Faculty have warned others that they were in danger of having their privilege taken away in a like manner. No fixed number of cuts is allowed, but each man's case is treated by itself; hence it is impossible to regulate one's cutting by any fixed rule, and each must decide for himself what "abusing the privilege "means...
...HAVE often gone to the Library to get certain books that are put aside for reference; but somehow or other these books are never to be found. I thought it strange that no matter at what hour of the day I might come, some studious individual had the start...
...authors' real names be found under their pseudonymes. Why force real names into the heads of students who are in a hurry for certain books? Mr. Winsor should remember that the elective system still reigns at Harvard...