Word: animus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University must have a fatal effect upon the characters of large numbers of men within its walls, that the attitude of the faculty is one of connivance rather than of active warfare against vice. So far, however, from accepting what this person says of Harvard, detecting immediately the animus of the article, we find so much of exaggeration that the writer's statements become absurd. The writer speaks first of one man in twenty as belonging to the "set" he is describing. Placing the total number of undergrates at 1200, an over-estimate, the size of the set according...
...plan, which, in wicked ingenuity and craftiness, excells the most diabolical counsels of a Machiavelli, is briefly this : The dissenting faction unanimously agree to enter upon a prolonged strike - not, however, immediately, by no means, no, but - here is the point - not until after the Christmas recess. The secret animus of this determination is this : By waiting until after Christmas the usual holiday presents and relics of cast-off garments and other articles, which are abandoned by their owners and in their absence usually appropriated by the goodies, will thus be secured. The contract for the year's washing also...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The correspondent in yesterday's HERALD betrays the animus of the whole article in his signature - "One who did not Draw a Room." Because he was born under an unlucky star, this writer has to vent his spleen in the columns of a college daily. Every one knows these men, whenever one of them thinks that the whole world has ceased for a moment to be at his feet, he rushes into print. When he sees his complaint in print he imagines that the fancied evil is done away with...
...fifteen are concerned. It does not lie in the number, but in the men themselves. It requires only a little common-sense to see this. Eleven men could make the game fully as unpleasant as fifteen. We need only quote the words of a Yale player, to show the animus. By way of apology, he said 'that he acknowledged that he played a low, dirty, mean game, and had always done so, and he believed that he played a dirtier, lower, meaner game than any man in the United States.' This grovelling explanation is sufficient. Its honesty...