Word: civilianizes
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...college can do many things that in a civilian would certainly be much blamed and probably be severely punished. Now whenever a student does anything wrong he lays his reputation and his social position at the feet of his friends, trusting that in their hands he is safe. This safety a man cannot find here if he is, for example, untruthful; for, if there is one thing that Harvard University stands for, it is perfect truthfulness in every individual member and as a whole. Many things, however, the student feels that his fellows will regard leniently and accordingly...
Your petitioners having learned that a bill to place the United States naval observatory under civilian control, and to appoint an astronomer its chief director, has been brought to the attention of Congress, earnestly request that this measure shall receive your friendly consideration...
...male reasons as because it was more becoming and easier to get. Harvard also is a great favorite with the girls, but not so many of them have waltzed with a real Harvard student, and Yale and Princeton are ahead. West Point, though, is away up in front. No civilian, no matter how darling his mustache and wavy its silken ends, can compare with the roughly shaved cadet; the bell button, with its imaginative tinkling and figurative heart shape, outweighs...
...ought to be highly popular. The majority of the lectures are to be given by gentlemen who were engaged in the operations described and who in addition have given particular study to the subjects of which they treat. Two or three of the lectures, however, will be given by civilians, but by gentlemen none the less competent to discuss their subjects. Lectures of this sort by such finished historical scholars as John C. Ropes and Dr. Channing cannot fail to be of interest, if for no better reason as presenting an instructive contrast in the point of view...