Word: conductivities
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That some few Seniors, conspicuous by the smallness of the number, do show that their potations have been so frequent as to make them forgetful of the conduct becoming to gentlemen, hardly proves that the rest of the class should be debarred from a pleasant frolic. The personal disgrace of a few does not disgrace their class...
...Harvard Rifle-Club was formally organized on Monday, and the following officers were chosen: S. Sherwood, President; W. E. Russell, Secretary and Treasurer; Sigourney Butler, Field-Inspector. Committees were appointed to conduct the election of members and to draft a constitution for the club...
...those she has sent for the last two years, since she can hardly expect to send better ones than these. "And, after all, it is strange that Harvard should wish to row again with Yale alone, against whom she has made so many charges of foul play and ungentlemanly conduct"; and this argument under other circumstances would really have some weight, but at present it is useless. It is expected that Princeton's captain, who wishes to withdraw, will succeed in persuading his college to join Harvard, and it is possible that there may be one other college, Columbia...
...affording indications of the tenor of thought prevailing among the more educated classes of the younger part of the nation. Thus, in Oxford, the motion that "this house sympathizes with the insurrection in Herzegovina" was carried, 56 to 8. In Cambridge, "that this house strongly disapproves of the conduct of government regarding the Admiralty circular relating to fugitive slaves," was carried...
...college at least, are yet too far from that general manliness and keener sense of honor which are essential to the best working of a perfectly open election. We certainly hope to see each of the different class elements voting, as we are informed one has already done, to conduct this election wholly without regard to their society or association interests; or, at least, declaring publicly what action may be expected from it, and whether or not an open election is to be an only too well rehearsed farce...