Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which the "orchestra" of to-day is incapable. In the balmy nights of spring ??? little band of players would go to ??? ton or wherever else there dwelt ??? maidens and serenade them. T ??? were the days of chivalry, and ??? players were amply rewarded by the rustling of a blind or the raising of a sash. Not infrequently the Sodality serenaded the wrong house, as when they uttered their sweet music to the attentive ears of Judge X's servant-maids while his fair daughters were at Judge Y's dance...
...over them would be lessened thereby. There was sanity in moderation in the use of intoxicants as much as in the total abstinence from them. He did not want it understood that he advocated moderation in the place of total abstinence. Far from it But we could not be blind to the fact that many people, who were by no means degraded, used it. He spoke at length of the tendency of science and of society to-day toward the total disuse of liquor. He then said that in college the probable cause of indulgence in intoxicants...
...world, let me be free from prejudices of old ideas. These tendencies are inharmonious. But the fair and large-minded man lies between these two. The man who follows that is a creature of hope and remembrance. He does not think that the best way is to be blind to the past and future. He is a conservative and a progressive man. He holds fast to all the good of the past while reaching forward into future. Progress is safe only when thus made; and this, I take it, is the characteristic of a Yale student...
...member of the crew is asked a question, mysterious winks and dubious monosyllabic replies are all the satisfaction usually obtained. When the university crew is beaten in a two mile race by a class crew, no explanation is offered and the old, old threadbare subterfuge is adopted, the blind, unreasoning method of utter silence impressed on every man in the university boat. Harvard is not afraid to do her work openly and is not afraid of giving us points, whether in her favor or ours. She tries to win and frequently accomplishes that end without a code of unwritten...
...value of a college degree, or on a college's reputation? On the other hand the facts that cribbing exists, whether in great or small degree, and that it is decidedly an evil in education, are enough to condemn such indifference, or such a desire to be blind to the disagreeable Our Conference Committee deserves great credit for what it has tone, and should receive hearty support in its undertaking...