Word: cankers
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...this is the political Springtime and "receptive candidates," who were the buds of yesterday, must burst betimes into active bloom unless they wish to wither with a canker of disappointment in their hearts...
...Committee in refusing to ratify the election of Captain Waters. We believe that every member of the University, no matter in what department, has a vested right to represent Harvard in athletics. This vested right it has been found necessary to abridge to a certain extent to kill the canker that threatened the very life of intercollegiate athletics-the so-called "professional" athlete. This was done by the one year residence clause, which has met with almost universal approval, and by the four year time limit, the advisability of which is by no means so certain. But in the present...
...world, which is shallow and canker...
...could admit the canker insect of anxiety to rend my heart unalloyed if it were not for other ploughing inflictions which asset my mind about this Venie. Isaac tells me her neck and bust have been jollified by thousands; think of it, Mr. Brimstone, inflect how improper of that girl to be seen in such an informal, decolleti way! How lacking in maidenly preserve she must be! What a brass face the girl must have! The carmine glow profuses my hectic cheeks as I think of it; and then for Isaac not to be ashamed of such coyness! Really...
...third part of a poem (to be continued), entitled "The Tide of Time." It is apparently a judicious combination of "Paradise Lost" and "Queen Mab"! but after deep consideration we are still unable to decide whether it is a parody, or intended to be serious. "I'll nip the canker in the bud" is a pleasing, though at first sight a startling figure; nipping cankerworms must be an agreeable entertainment on a spring morning in the country. The gentleman who makes this remark in the poem, is - Well, his name is not usually mentioned in polite society; and be makes...