Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Swayed, rocked, and murmured aloud these blameless, cloud-gathering Freshmen...
...equally essential qualities for one in his position, and they were so perfectly united in him that we should do him wrong by selecting either of them for special praise. He merits our enduring gratitude for his loyal service to the College, and our reverent memory for his blameless excellence in every relation of life...
...settled. From the stir and bustle outside, one would think that every man had changed his room from last year. A few quiet men are seen either idling, or paying the penance of previous injudicious idling, but the majority are chiefly occupied with superintending the movements of the "blameless Ethiopian" moving furniture from last year's room. There has been, of course, the usual amount of hand-shaking among faultlessly dressed young fellows, the usual inquiries and responses as to the manner of spending the summer vacation. Once more, as usual, the gawky Freshman and the self-important Senior...
...breaks anti-tobacco and anti-spirit pledges, made by proxy when he was four or five years old. And for the disgust in which good and sacred things may be held, from having been, in a manner, kidnapped into their observance, temperance orators and revivalists are not blameless. If teachers and writers would be content to paint things as they are, and not as they ought to be; if they would endeavor to point out that virtue and temporal advancement do not always go hand in hand, that because a man is good he is not necessarily the idol...
More than death to blameless...