Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...European governments which are now standing aloof from the centennial festivities of France, are the ones which always tried to check, the current of liberty. They feel that a blow has been struck at royalty and are unwiling to recognize the country which held the sword...
...greater efforts, and why the college should all the more heartily give them its support. The crew has done its part, has gone to work with a zeal and determination never shown before, but there is a disposition among some inconsiderate men, who think it their part to stand aloof and sneer at the earnest but unsuccessful efforts in the past, to refuse the money which is absolutely necessary...
Senator Hoar followed. His speech was brilliant. He welcomed the learning and scholarship of the country to share in its government, and felt it a sad thing when such men held aloof from their duty. He spoke of the graduates whose pictures hang in Harvard's halls, and described what their feelings would be on such an occasion as the coming election day. He eloquently outlined the character of the candidates and drew a graphic comparison, being continually interrupted by cheers...
...Yale men claim that the chief reason they have held aloof from joining the proposed league between Harvard, Princeton and Yale is based on the fear that if a dispute should arise, Princeton and Harvard would combine against Yale. This is merely a protest to screen themselves for their backwardness in uniting with Harvard and Princeton as they know well enough that everything passed by the league has to be done so unanimously...
...that though the men who might take a first prize had concluded to let somebody else have a chance. Brooks, '86, the champion college sprinter, positively declines to enter this year. Hamilton, '86, the easy winner of the bicycle race at last year's games, also holds himself severely aloof from the track, and now says nothing can induce him to enter. Meredith and Mitchell, the Scientific School experts at the mile walk and half mile run, respectively, have graduated from college, and ponderous A. B. Coxe, of the junior class is the only probable "first" man left to hold...