Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accomplishment an accomplishment so singularly barren of all results that it has scarcely produced a dozen original poems on which the world sets the most trifling value; while we waste years in thus perniciously fostering idle verbal imitations, and in neglecting the rich fruit of ancient learning for its bitter useless and unwholesome husk-while we thus dwarf many a vigorous intellect, and disgust many a manly mind while a great university, neglecting in large neasure the literature and the philosophy of two leading nations, contents itself with being, in the words of one of its greatest sons, 'a bestower...
...result is naturally a very bitter disappointment for us, as the nature of the game was totally unexpected. Still the play of our team was by no means weak, and a little stronger tackling with surer catching would have materially effected the score. Moffat, Lamar and Kimball did nearly everything for the home team, while Adams, Kendall and Cowling worked hard for Harvard. The play of Appleton and Bonsal was also very noticeable. The teams were as follows...
...then return without playing any other games. This will be the most convenient and much the most economical arrangement. The Harvard-Yale series should consist of four games, two played in Cambridge and two at New Haven, and only if necessary to play off a tie be played. Bitter experience has proved the extravagance of the New York trips. Last June-July, after the close of the college year, our nine made a trip to New York to fulfil their arrangements, and notwithstanding the most rigid economy prescribed by Mr. Winslow excellent, and followed out by the members...
...Cornell graduate speaks in bitter terms of college faculties. "A college faculty," he cries, "to speak the plain, unvarnished truth, is a body content without a soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided...
...horizon of college politics is again overcast, and angry mutterings of discontent are heard. Cornell has been afflicted with a student election, in which there was much bitterness and ill-feeling shown, and in which, if we may judge from the account of the matter in the Sun, some performances similar to the recent unfortunate election frauds at Yale took place. The occasion has called forth some very bitter reflections from our esteemed contemporary. It cries: "The student opinion that can countenance the disgraceful and unmanly words and actions that have come to be characteristic of a college election...