Word: mannerisms
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...outrageous proceedings of the last night went beyond the average, and the villagers were awakened by the shock to a new sense of their own consequence, their own rights and their own powers." If Dr. McCosh really wishes to curb the spirits of his students in an effective manner, we advise him not to bind them down by petty rules and regulations that are more fitted for a primary school than for a college; but to come to Cambridge, and study the system employed at Harvard; then let him go back and give the Princeton students the liberty and freedom...
...board at Memorial," for it makes very little difference to me whether it is $4 per week, or $6, for my bills are sent home to be settled by my paternal parent. But I would like to ask a few questions concerning the quality of the board, and the manner in which it is served. Why is it that when a person orders toast, for instance, he cannot have warm toast, instead of some stuff that tastes as if it had been toasted several days before? Why is it that if a person happens to arrive a few minutes after...
...Whose manner was yearning and mild...
...length in its editorial columns, and speaking of the freshmen, moralized as follows: "At Music Hall, for instance, he dealt with a situation so embarrassing that it should not have been permitted except by his own express consent, which very likely was given, in a practical and highly sensible manner, which robbed the conceited bumptiousness of a number of young cubs - of more importance now in their own eyes than they will ever be hereafter - of many of the strong effects which they expected it to have." "The conceited bumptiousness of a number of young cubs" is good...
...penny evening paper, the World, seems to have started out with a good opinion of Harvard men, and yesterday expressed itself as follows: "It is rumored that the Yale students propose to receive Oscar Wilde after the manner of the welcome extended to Count Johannes some years ago; putty blowers, decayed oranges and overgrown sunflowers, being substituted for bouquets and applause. The New Haven Register trusts, for the honor of Yale and the credit of the university city, that this programme, if intended, shall be dropped. 'Yale,' it says, 'should let Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm...