Word: rightnesses
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...cannot develop without aggressive criticism, and the feeling in each student that he is in some degree responsible for the behavior of the community. This little matter of the good lame of the yard will be one way in which men can give their shove in the right direction, by not only passively but actively promoting celebrations of a handsome and orderly kind...
...fellows in the following statute: Persons who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted to any of the courses of instruction in the university, provided that they satisfy the appropriate faculty of their fitness to pursue the particular courses which they elect. The several faculties have the right to deprive any such student of his privileges if he abuse them or fail to use them. It was also resolved that the privileges extended to special students being readily subject to abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly granted that great care be taken in admitting...
...same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read the play to set myself right again...
...provides that whatever the corporation does shall have full force without dependence upon the consent of the overseers, * * * provided always that the acts of the corporation shall be alterable by the overseers, according to their discretion. No limit of time is set within which the overseers must exercise their right of revision, or else forfeit it. No one concluding a contract with the corporation would dream of making the overseers a party to the contract. Their powers have been somewhat extended in practice, but their main function at present is to give their consent a matter of form...
...third in the sixth inning. The game was won by the powerful hitting of '86, aided by costly errors of '85. The features of the game were the batting of Rankin, Crocker and Burnett; the home run by Hoyt, and the catching of two difficult flies by Bruner in right field. The score...