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...they may see fit from the dictations of their own consciences. Carelessness, when it results in inconvenience to others, is in itself an offence of no slight magnitude; but when the carelessness, becomes intentional carelessness, then the offence is one that deserves more than passing notice, and those who offend thus may well receive the highest contempt and odium of their fellows...
...colledge, not grateful to wise men, and chargeable to ye Parents of ye Comencers; do therefore put an End to that Custom, and do hereby order that no Comencer or other scholar, shall have any Such Cakes in their Studies or Chambers, and that if any Scholar shall offend therein, ye Cakes shall be taken from him, and he shall moreover pay to the College twenty shillings for each and such offence...
...before our eyes. But let it be said to the credit of the steward and the management, that, although we were there at a time when there is the most confusion and general disorder-just as the dirty dinner dishes are coming down-nothing could be found which would offend the most fastidious. Everything was scrupulously neat; everyone knew his or her duties, and went about them quietly and systematically...
...speaks the better English, the subjects of Queen Victoria, or the fellow citizens of President Arthur? still remains open for discussion. Perhaps it will never be determined, but for Americans, for those at least who pretend to be careful in their speech, it may be claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever...
...hosts of crew men, who have rowed in four-mile races and are still "alive," is as nothing beside the desire to propitiate everybody. Princeton and Columbia, according to common report, have succeeded in gaining concessions from Harvard. We should like to ask, but without any desire to offend the tender sensibilities of our representative at that mournful conference, "what concessions were made to Harvard?" Of course, the last resolution was necessary to make the others of any effect. We think better of Yale, however, than to believe that she will be forced to adopt these measures by any such...