Word: commands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sudden alarms there is of necessity a great deal of excitement and confusion, and "what is everybody's business is nobody's business." Now a trained and efficient life-saving service might be organized if the men of each building should select some one to take command of their body in case of fire, and on an alarm, should assemble at the place where the nearest ladders are stowed and stand ready to get them out if required. The men might be occasionally trained in handling and raising the ladders, and if each man had his station assigned...
...chosen friends with whom he loved to talk of his favorite studies. About the college grounds he moved shyly, as if trying to avoid recognition or the necessity of recognizing others. In the class-room he was somewhat grim, and chary of the lore at his command. He was rather an instructor of scholars than of students, and his vast erudition showed itself in his grammars and lexicons more than in the conduct of recitations, which with him was rather formal and unfruitful, though his occasional lectures were rich with suggestions for those who could profit by them. His early...
...annual report Gen. Merrit in command at West Point says in regard to "hazing" at that institution, that while his predecessors for the last 25 years have reported at one time or another that the practice of hazing had been broken up, it is his experience that they have, without exception, been mistaken. He says : "By repressive measures the evil has been at times restricted to its lowest limits, but has never been eradicated. Just the moment repression has ceased the brutal custom has sprung up with new features of brutality. While I do not favor threats to repress disorders...
...will board, at Memorial, depends on the success of the Dining Association to keep prices down and prevent the boarding places from being crowded ; and in the same way, the competition that another good dormitory would exert would lower the exorbitant rent that rooms in any desirable locality now command. We must have another soon, and it is certainly better for the college to get the income from it than for outsiders. But certain it is that unless the college finds means to put up a dormitory pretty soon, outside capital will take advantage of the opportunity...
Under proper management such a club should effect good results, and with a membership drawn from all the branches of the university would doubt less command strong support, and the open meetings be of practical benefit...