Word: enough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wretch told you that I flirted with him, did he? and you prefer to believe him rather than me? and you are conceited enough to think that you were always as fine looking...
...Memorial Hall by two infuriated college officers, after I had stolen up through the cellar with the hope of avoiding the rush at the door. Such treatment, ruffles the dignity of a Junior, you know. Of course I liked the exercises, but the Seniors did n't look sad enough, and seemed to take parting as a matter of course...
...There, that will do," said I. "One man like you is enough to cast a gloom over the happiest occasion." And as I bade him good night I advised him not to trouble any Seniors with his melancholy thoughts...
...ought, after all, to preserve enough interest in the world - you need not have much, of course - to care whether your crew is supported, and whether your class gives say two-thirds of her quota towards its 'Varsity. I 'm quite aware that '82, as you state, failed to support both her crew and the 'Varsity; still, that class did not get a very good reputation by such conduct. Then, too, it is very fine to say, "Confound all class matters, what do I care for my class?" like the '80 men, and though, like '80, liberal with your money...
...high general average careless about their success in any particular course. Still worse, it leaves all faithful work in any particular course unrewarded; and the new system of Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight. And, even in cases where Honorable Mention is obtained, it is just to have faithful work in one special course rewarded. If a student takes, for example, Political Economy for the Senior year, his work in it is absolutely unnoticed...