Word: branded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coolness and resignation to the inevitable, shown by the great majority of its readers. The CRIMSON'S policy in times of great political excitement is to remain unmoved as a passive spectator and to gather rich fruit in philosophic contemplation of the desperate efforts of its contemporaries to brand one another as falsifiers and deceivers of the public...
...momentous a one, that one must hesitate to form decided opinions upon it until it has met with a more thorough discussion. We cannot, however, forbear inclining to adopt the opinion in regard to it expressed by the New York Times. It is easy to brand opposition to so radical a reform as the extension of the system of specialization and differentiation in studies into the years of boyhood and earliest youth, as mere unthinking conservatism. President Eliot speaks, of course, with the highest authority; and yet the logical outcome of his views cannot but excite alarm...
...Fifty years ago, said Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent address on Wendell Phillips, during my college life, I was chosen to debate the question of African colonization, which, just then, was new and fresh. Garrison was just then kindling a brand of fire that never went out until slavery was abolished. Wendell Phillips, a young lawyer, had just entered upon his career. Fortunately, I was assigned to the negative side of the question, and in preparing to speak upon that occasion I prepared my whole life...
...keen, look upon sign-stealing as anything but humorous, and have taken to shooting at "sign-raggers." The huge joke of sign-stealing does not come home clearly to us; in any case it is a joke which may be followed by six months imprisonment and a felon's brand for life...
...copy of the Harvard Book in cloth bindings can be had of Moses King for $19.75. A copy of the Harvard Book in the finest full morocco,-a brand new copy-, for $35 at Moses King's store, 400 Harvard...