Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporation for wanting us to leave the old Tree and for not wanting a scrap. As I have talked over this matter a number of times with a member of the Corporation, perhaps I can express their views. In the first place they considered the scrap a brutal proceeding, one that was thoroughly inappropriate for Class Day which is a fete day when there are a crowd of ladies present. Of course it is easy to say let us not allow the ladies to be present at the Tree, but let us keep the scrap. The answer to this...
...objections to the scrimmage itself have little weight. The flowers, particularly the class figures, should perhaps be so lowered that the struggle need not be so violent and that "concerted action" might not be necessary. But that the scrimmage is brutal, that football clothes should not be worn, and so practically that the old scrimmage should develop into a formal presentation to each Senior of a boutenniere, is absurd. A man may take part in the scrimmage without losing dignity or without being brutal or ungentlemanly...
...sixteen months ago that the first stories were heard of Turkish atrocities committed in Armenia. Christendom was startled; but it was slow to awake to the terrible reality of the situation, to realize that Armenia is now and has long been the scene of horrible cruelty, savage ferocity, and brutal lust, such as is unsurpassed in the history of the relations of man to man. It is no exaggeration to say that in about a year and a half sixty thousand martyrs have suffered at the hands of the fierce Turks. No longer ago than Saturday there came news...
...this way merely to avoid the personal inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high is of course absurd, but it is extremely...
...evils of intercollegiate football are ineradicable. - (a) Football, by its nature, offers great inducements to unfair and brutal playing. - (b) Intense excitement and rivalry of intercollegiate contests make such temptations irresistable...