Professor Says Millennials Are The Worst Generation, Woman Responds With 18th Century Disciplinary Records

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mattstaff
Sep 1, 2019 9:00 PM EDT

Twitter user @calluna_, responded to a professor who complained about the millennials being the lamest, most intolerable generation by transcribing a collection of 18th century student disciplinary records, and sharing her findings. Turns out things were pretty out of control in the 18th century. Makes the millennials look pretty reasonable after all. 

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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Itranscribed a collection of 18thC student disciplinary records once. Let me give a quick overview of the things that generation were doing... 1/ THE TimesHigherEducation 2018-07-19 The lamest generation: I can't teach millennials they refuse to take any responsibility for their learning, says an assistant professor bit.ly/2JtxhhF 15:42 2018-07-19 Twitter for iPhone 7,362 Retweets 14.3K Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Duelling with swords; getting loudly and raucously drunk and getting kicked out of taverns; going along to a dancing master's classes to meet girls, being told not to dance with one of said girls, getting into a fight with the dancing master over it; 2/ 15:45 2018-07-19. Twitter Web Client 319 Retweets 3,289 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Making 'obscene toasts' when drunk; hassling the landlady's daughter when drunk; taking a sedan chair home when drunk and trashing it (Glasgow sedan chairs could be hired like taxis in 18thC there were even designated sedan- chair pickup ranks); 3/ 15:49 2018-07-19 Twitter Web Client 206 Retweets 2,303 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Getting drunk and damaging somebody else's lodgings to the point where he was "expelled from his Habitation and deprived of his Body Cloaths and the poor Remainder of his furniture to Satisfy the Landlord for his Rent"; 4/ 15:53 2018-07-19 Twitter Web Client 170 Retweets 2,001 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ "having too many Companions always in his room, disturbing the house wt noise & breaking the furniture, as an evidence of which the Chairs in his room have been no lefs than three times broke [...] the expense whereof he promised to pay but has never yet fulfilled his promise" 5/ 15:55 2018-07-19 Twitter Web Client 155 Retweets 1,831 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Not attending lectures, and claiming when told off for this that there was a university regulation saying students on his particular bursary only needed to attend 1/3 to pass, leading to two professors combing through rules for nonexistent regulation; 6/ 15:57 2018-07-19. Twitter Web Client 263 Retweets 2,685 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Arguing at the university debating society that the university is a "dusty shop of logic and metaphysic" and students would be better off just going to the theatre; 7/ 15:58 2018-07-19 Twitter Web Client 355 Retweets 2,984 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Suggesting to the ex-military chemistry lecturer that the army only wear red because they are trying to make up for their lack of virility; getting into a fight with said chemistry lecturer in the university quad that two academic staff had to wade into and break up; 8/ 16:01. 2018-07-19 Twitter Web Client 235 Retweets 2,408 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ (the last three were all the same student; he eventually got expelled and went off to seek his fortune with the East India Company) 9/ 16:02 2018-07-19 Twitter Web Client 152 Retweets 2,414 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Something that was bad enough to get two students expelled but is only described (by them) as "having the Misfortune sometime agoe to fall into an unhappy afray with some People of the Town"; 16:04 2018-07-19. Twitter Web Client 111 Retweets 1,656 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ Getting drunk and arguing with a lecturer, deciding later that he needed to be taught a lesson, marching out drunkenly into the night with the tavern fireplace poker, beating an innocent passer-by w/ it until the Lord Provost arrived to wrench said poker out of student's hand 12/ 16:08 2018-07-19. Twitter Web Client 123 Retweets 1,465 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ A significant proportion of these students were planning to go into the Church, btw. 13/ 16:09 2018-07-19. Twitter Web Client 102 Retweets 1,720 Likes
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    millennials - Text - Jenny Bann @calluna_ So while I agree it's annoying when your undergrads don't do the reading and plagiarise their essays from SparkNotes, I struggle to believe they're the Worst Student Generation Ever. 14/14 16:10 2018-07-19 Twitter Web Client 717 Retweets 7,935 Likes
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