Word: condemnable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condemn the contemptible practice of taking reserved books from the library may seem to our readers a trite theme, but another case has just been brought to our notice which demands a few words. This time it is a text-book in Natural History 2 which is missing. It is impossible for members of that course to get any adequate idea of the subject, which is being passed over with great rapidity, without constant references to the text-book on zoology by Claus. We have been informed that careful search on the shelves and on the desks of the reading...
...brought nothing for us. For the first time in the history of the University has our Alma Mater gone into the extravagance of presenting her foster children with a Christmas present. Massachusetts 3 has been adorned with window shades, an extravagance which some conservatives may be ready to condemn, but which no former sufferer from Phoebus' rays will not hail with delight. Since the University has been ready to do so much for our comfort, the sanguine among us may hope to see plank-walks throughout the yard before the twentieth century dawns on the world...
...well as any man in America; and of all men in America he was most opposed to, and most afraid of it. It was out of the question, therefore, that he could come to Cambridge without hearing much in praise of what we prize as liberal, and what he condemn's as heretical; if he expected to do this he was sanguine - very sanguine...
...specimens from the fish commission for somerclature and analysis. Several new species bear his name - a great compliment in scientific circles. In the room adjoining his own he showed us thousands of jars of preserved reptiles and fishes from which he had to select the best specimens, and condemn the useless ones. Some thousands of innocent snakes and fish have been immured here for years, immolated to the cause of science, to be rudely dragged forth, condemned as "common" and haled to the offal-dock. Alcohol has been the ruin of nearly every reptile that ever indulged...
Moreover, I believe that the responsibility for yard troubles in the past rests with the men whose sober convictions condemn the excesses which have been committed, but who are too good natured or too irresolute to stand up to their convictions...