Word: randomizations
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...reflect, and students who have a taste for beauty and order. Hence, we plead for the protection of the grass; and now especially because upon these few weeks depends its state for the entire spring and summer. The snow and ice over which we could walk at random without damaging the under-lying grass, have melted. Now, if we stray off the paths and take short-cuts, resultant devastation is certain. Why study the natural laws of cause and effect unless we apply them...
Finally in all seriousness, the annoyance caused by the amount of random conversation in English A., despite the instructor's gentle remonstrance, is sufficient to warrant an open statement of it and an appeal to the CRIMSON to rebuke the talkers...
...does not, he becomes inhuman. Each truth must be aware of the great whole of truth which it utters; if it does not it becomes untrue. Each star must quiver with the movement of the system, or it is a mere waif and stray of brilliance, living at random in the sky. Each article of faith must feel the creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation of the world. Each age in history...
...library is rather small, but small as it is, we should be glad to use it more. Books can be taken out only on Saturday, to be returned Monday. Probably remembering their own youthful tastes, the authorities have forbidden the reading of any such books as Roderick Random, or Tristram Shandy; Smollet, Fielding, and Sterne are tabooed, and the principal works provided for our perusal are the Patent-Office Reports, and the Congressional Record...
Such examples as we have quoted above are not by any means uncommon,-unfortunately. They have been chosen quite at random, for the sole reason that they illustrate a style of poetry which it is almost a duty to put down, so far as lies in our power...