Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unpolished athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory...
Further, there are not a few cases of men who never succeed in winning their way into their class-mates good graces. (I do not here include the few men in every class who are truly worthy of contempt and disapproval.) These men may be naturally good and agreeable fellows, who come here without knowing anyone, repel those with whom they come in contact by an unfortunate lack of manners or by a hampering poverty, and then are frozen up into themselves by the snobbery which they encounter, and lose all the sweetness of college life in the solitude...
...this year-the life-current which is increasing her activity in athletics, in daily work, in religion-will soon sweep away this very considerable evil, and that we shall realize more fully what a duty and what a power lies in the bond which binds us together here as fellow-students and fellow...
...first statue of Long fellow erected in this country will be unveiled next spring in Portland, Me., the poet's birthplace. The figure is of bronze and was made in Italy by Franklin Summons...
...policemen on guard for several days and nights together." But the law did not seem to have any effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities. Students were time and again warned against having plum cake in their rooms, and one poor fellow suffered dire punishment because he tried to evade the law by having plain cake. At last the authorities in despair took to scheming. They voted that commencement time should be changed, and that it should be more private than usual, and that the day set apart for this anniversary should be concealed...