Word: platformization
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...This is a severe test, as all can see. The closing or graduating ceremonies are very simple. Visitors are admitted by ticket. Punctually at the hour, the procession - president, trustees, faculty, fellows, candidates for degrees and students - enter the hall, the president, trustees and fellows taking seats upon the platform. The president then makes a brief statement of the history of the university year. Then the professor reads the names of candidates for the A. B., giving the residence and preparatory school of the student. To those items are added the special and subordinate subjects that have had attention; also...
...five o'clock train. The town boys regret their not having a regularly appointed committee of reception, but hope the students will appreciate their efforts to make it "pleasant" for them. Depot Master Geer reports considerable damage done to the railroad company's property and freight on the depot platform by being smashed by the students on their return trip, the bill for which will be promptly presented...
...Union car yesterday, at the long delay caused by the stop at the railroad crossing. The conductor slowly wandered towards the track, both hands in his pockets, turned around without so much as looking up or down, and in the same leisurely manner sauntered back to the rear platform of the car. That the cars should be stopped before the crossing is a wise and necessary precaution, but the question naturally arises, if the flagman, who is employed for the very purpose of preventing accidents, cannot perceive the approach of trains, how can the conductor be expected...
...recreation and enjoyment as the alternative and the reward of our professional toil. Now, the entire tone and character of this life outside the profession are profoundly dependent on the compass of our early studies. He that leaves the school for the shop at thirteen is on one platform. He that spends the years from thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work at thirteen, and those that are born not to work at all, are alike his inferiors. He should be able...
Scene on a railroad platform at Heidelberg-Traveller to a university student: "Sir, you are crowding-keep back, sir." U. S. (fiercely): "Don't you like it? Allow me to tell you that I am at your service at any time and place." Traveller (benignantly): "Ah, indeed, that is very kind of you. Just carry this satchel for me to the hotel."-[Index...