Word: discreetly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
With the academically dead and dying scattered untidily all over The Hill, the cause of good scholarship is shedding a discreet tear just behind the scenes. Causes and alibis for "busting," and pro-bations are more plentiful than ever, but none answer the damning indictment that too much of Cornell has been guilty of intellectual slovenliness during the past term...
...cousin to the magazine mangler and blood brother of the noisy card player. Society, in college and out, tolerates such men because they apparently get some innocent happiness out of such a performance, but it wishes, nevertheless, that energy thus employed were expended at a more discreet time or in a better cause...