Word: causticity
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...evangelical religious society, "The Christian Brethren." Graduating with honors in Philosophy, he was given a place on the commencement stage, and was also made Phi Beta Kappa marshal of his class for the day. His commencement oration, on "The Modern Worship of Culture," was a brilliant and caustic arraignment of the tendencies at Harvard which militate against the higher life; Mr. Hyde next passed two years at Union Seminary; then, after a year's further study, was graduated at Andover in 1882, his commencement thesis there being "Tauler and the Mystics." He pursued a post graduate course in theology...
...principal disputants were off., Messrs. Sewall, L. S., and Hansen, '85; neg., Saunders, L. S., and E. T. Sandford, '85. Mr. Sewall upon taking the floor was greeted with prolonged and vigorous applause. He delivered a most caustic review of Mr. Blaine's public career, being frequently interrupted by applause. Mr. Sewall was followed by Mr. Sannders, who, upon arising was saluted with thunders of applause. The speaker, in the most able argument of the evening, compared the records of the two parties and assailed the claims of the Democratic party to a reform policy. Mr. Hansen and Mr. Sanford...
...Boston papers were very caustic when they learned that the faculty had forbidden a student to play on a well recognized amateur nine against a professional team...
...attempt, however, to characterize Mr. Hudgens' poems indelibly by the utterance of a single word or by some Sphynx-like expression is as much an indication of imbecile intellect as of caustic invidiousness and of childish attempt to gain a Delphic credence. It can be done with no more justice in the present instance than that one should take a poem of Byron's lighter vein and pronounce Byron weak, or that one should call Longfellow childish because he had once allowed his Muse to play about the heartstrings of youth...
...which is written in an admirable style, - contains but three or four subjects, all of which have been handled from time immemorial by other college papers. If the Critic wishes to be a success, and occupy a field entirely its own, let it have more of its short and caustic editorials, and less of long and dry articles on worn-out subjects...