Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ungenerous to turn, as our critic does, and upbraid him for those weaknesses to which all mortal flesh is subject. Such ingratitude is unfilial, inhuman. Charles Sumner used to regretfully say, "The age of chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have added, "The age of humanity, of courtesy, of urbanity, is gone." One of the worst and most common of American faults is lack of respect and reverence for what is old, venerable, and well deserving. At the risk of being...
...this state of affairs. The novelty of club races has passed away, and any one who has watched the decline and fall of interests in college amusements other than boating will not be surprised. There is not the slightest doubt that we in college have some traits in common with the inhabitants of the nursery. We have an abundance of new toys, and we are always ready to discard our last plaything for a new one. It may be that this is caused partially by the necessity of shifting so often our interest in our work. One naturally feels unsettled...
...success of the two matches for which our team is pledged this spring. The difficulty of obtaining money-subscriptions in aid of athletics this year is understood by all; and if the lukewarm supporter of the foot-ball interest has any additional excuse for not subscribing, other than the common plea of hard times, the chances are that he will close both his ears and pocket to the entreaties of the canvasser for foot-ball subscriptions. It is this fear of a lack of money support, more than an apprehension that the counsel offered in the Advocate will be ultimately...
...conduct be tolerated for a moment. It would be considered as an insult to those present, and measures would speedily be taken to correct the manners of the offender. The same rule applies to visitors at Memorial Hall; and it is our opinion that if men, through ignorance of common rules of politeness, persist in standing in the gallery with their hats on, students are perfectly justified in endeavoring to teach them better manners...
...from the eastern coast of America some most important relics, and among them some papers relating to this town of Harvard. It is expected that there will soon appear a work on America written in the light of these developments; at present it is sufficient to remark that the common notion that America was once a populous and powerful country, but that in the twentieth century there commenced a reduction of temperature and a southward movement of ice from the northern coast, which finally brought the land to its present barren state, is essentially correct. This article is confined...