Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...above quotation forms a part of a general attack upon Harvard life, especially its tendency to lay great stress upon athletic contests. Much as we deem the writer of the article egregiously ignorant about our affairs, there can be no doubt that Harvard is not exempt from the evils which always beset a large body of society-composed entirely of men, but that is no particular fault of ours. What can be laid at our door is a certain triviality in dealing with affairs, and a provinciality in regard to the outside world, but great as has been the misfortune...
...increased subscription list this year there is actually a smaller amount paid in than there was last February. We with-hold our censure of past extravagance, if it is to have any influence in preventing subscriptions. That was not our intent as any clear-headed man must see. Our attack was on recklessness such as has been evidenced in some instances. Now we are for victory and that cannot be jeopardized for the mistakes of the past. The present manager must have wit enough to see that he has a great task before him, and if he will publish what...
...Philippians signing himself "Pilliparius" and evidently considering himself an accredited delegate to represent Harvard thought to the fellows at Andover. This eccentric individual has asserted various views as coming from Harvard against the tone of the Exonian and all Exeter besides. Naturally Exeter is up in arms at this attack and wants to know if that is the way in which Exeter is viewed by Harvard men. We would inform the students there that the presuming young man must be either some escaped lunatic if he has learned that Exeter is disliked here, or some vicious-minded youth...
...will attack "muckerism" at Yale just as severely as we do at Harvard, or whenever it comes in contact with us; and reconsideration's or retractions coming weeks after the trouble complained of, will be viewed through the vista which time accords, and consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...between Harvard and Yale, but whose growth we now learn has been "blasted." It was bad enough to have the words and sentiments of Mr. Beecher misquoted in the daily papers, but when it comes to the CRIMSON and Advocate making this misrepresentation the basis of undignified and personal attack we can but take the stand in Mr. Beecher's defense. Last spring there was a mutual agreement between the college publications at Harvard and Yale to take all statements which appeared in the daily papers concerning college matters with a great deal of charity. If we remember rightly...