Word: benign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some quarters that a recess of one day would be worse than useless, and that the day would be literally wasted. This is not so, however, for in our belief, every one would do better work in the weeks which follow. O, that the kindly eyes of the benign overseers may rest in favor on this final wail of the long, long series...
...Varsity, of the University of Toronto, says in its editorials, that "it is the glory of Canada and the United States that the people are proud of their colleges, and feel and acknowledge that a benign influence emanates from them." In this respect institutions of learning in the new world are contrasted with those in the old and of past ages, which must be called "self-contained and self-seeking," for they discourage, and therefore do not deserve public good-will and respect. Such institutions "care naught for the people, and the people care naught for them." But our American...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-The graduate of West Point rarely speaks of the Military Academy as his alma mater: for alma means kind, gracious, benign, and a mother is tender and indulgent. The Military Academy has nothing of the university in either its discipline or its course of studies. Everything is made subordinate to the one purpose, that its graduates may be able engineers and soldiers that are trained to obey. The necessary hardships are such that few would prefer the necessities of West Point to the luxuries of Sing Sing, did not each one keep in mind the happy time...