Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editors conclude their paper with a bitter address containing an instructive homily on things in general and college journalism in particular. They say: "The deficiency of our subscription list has made it convenient to our publisher, that the present number be the last of the HARVARD LYCEUM . . .After the laborious exertions of nine months, such a conclusion is a mortifying recompense for the devotion of time, and the pains of composition." They make complaint also of the opposition they have met from envious associates and say: "In a place too where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred...
...which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum and propriety. What could have been the cause of those frequent and bitter outbursts of indignation and contempt, which we now re-read as curiosities of journalistic literature, and why he should have been so cruel to us, is a question not easily answered. It may be that, at some remote period, he was a disappointed candidate for a degree, and, on this account, cherishes...
...highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each his own side of the conflict, and the faculty of the college, as loyal during the war to the Union as any body of men in the country, divides the prize between them...
...crew," says the Tribune, "was on the water last fall soon after the opening of college, and took to the gymnasium work only when forced to by the bitter cold weather. At no time in Yale's boating career has she been able to put two eights on the water in the fall until last year. This is due to a greater number of boating men, or to an increase of interest in the sport." At present there are fifteen men in active training, as follows...
...hours are bitter, sad, and lone...