Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understood that a number of the most athletic of Harvard students are organizing a picked team to play "Blind Man's Buff" and "High Spy," but the faculty of the college expresses a preference for "Copenhagen," for the reason that it is free from the boisterousness, as a rule, which characterizes the robust games named. -New York World...
...childish and unreasonable manner. We simply wish the Committee to bear in mind that we represent the thoughtful students who have had practical experience in these matters-experience which the Committee have not enjoyed. We are not prejudiced against the Committee and their work, nor are we blind to existing abuses. But we are the "party of the second part," the ones concerned, and wish to be heard...
...government depends upon the answer. The custom that has hitherto prevailed in the selection of overseers, and the custom that would probably have prevailed for years to come, had not Mr. Garrison stepped in, if adopted in our national politics would have been merely to cast a blind vote for the more popular of the two gentlemen who were candidates for the speakership, trusting to the good sense and honesty of the successful candidate to solve the important question after the election. But, fortunately for our government, this is not the way it is administered...
...Harvard nine." We do not doubt that Mr. Goodwin was entirely right in stating that the whole college would support the freshman in this demand, or in anything else the freshmen might determine upon, although the remarks of the Courant hardly point that way. But it is this blind support that Yale always gives all her organizations, without regard to the justice of their position, that we complain...
...perhaps be seriously doubted whether we can at the present time elect forty living men of letters to immortal fame without stretching the bounds of immortality to the cracking point. What will M. A. A. be worth if we go about creating it with a blind determination to make forty men immortal whether there are forty worthy of it or not? Indeed, unless the standard of excellence required in the Academy be very high, our first men of letters will deem it no honor. much less an assurance of immortality to belong...