Word: inflicts
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...made a step forward in allowing voluntary recitations to all. But there is one point which seems to call for some notice, and that is that all punishments are left unreservedly in the hands of one officer of the Faculty. The severity or lightness with which he may inflict punishment for continual "cutting," for instance, is unrestricted by any bounds, and he is at perfect liberty to take away the privilege of voluntary recitations whenever he deems fit. This appears to us to be taxing one person with more responsibility than human nature is capable of bearing; especially when...