Word: condemnable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Again the freshman in his eagerness for artistic effects in wall decoration has been led into error. We say the freshman, for we cannot suppose that anyone but the freshman could be heartless enough to commit the foul theft which we here condemn. The base-ball management with an eye to attracting the attention of ordinarily indifferent students, has as usual begun to print its posters announcing the inter collegiate games in gaudy colors. Hardly had the first lot of these effective placards appeared when they began rapidly to disappear long before the game was played, much to the annoyance...
...which he had ideas. Boswell is one of those people we never think of blaming. He seems as incapable of wrong-doing as a child, and even while we feel a certain and even while we feel a certain sense of annoyance with him, at times, still we cannot condemn him. There is something charming in his folly. But the most striking feature of these letters, I think, lies in the accounts of his love-affairs. And since these accounts seem to me to be not only diverting, but also peculiarly characteristic of the man, I have purposed to dwell...
...relations to all things, then any change in our idea of these relations will change our idea of right and wrong. In this way fatalism may have an influence on conduct such as is exercised by all religious and philosophical beliefs. It may sanction certain acts and practices and condemn others; it may encourage certain states of mind. Thus we can conceive that if all the world turned fatalist, we might see our good people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less of what is called righteous indignation...
...made, and often are made, at least as valuable as those of any four years spent in any institution, I do not hesitate to say, in the world" Mr. Thwing is a Harvard graduate, and has written much on his Alma Mater. He has never hesitated to condemn her where she needed condemning, or to praise her where she has deserved praise, and it is just this openness and freedom that gives weight to what he writes. In the few lines I have quoted at the beginning of this paragraph, the may is an important word. Harvard merits the praise...
...last action of the Athietic committee of the faculty will not go very far towards increasing the popularity of that committee among the students. To condemn arbitrarily a student before allowing him a word in his own behalf, is hardly consistent with the recognized principles of justice and fair dealing. The endorsement of this style of procedure by the faculty will tend to increase the bad feeling already existing between the authorities and the students. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the decision in question originated with the committee, and that it will not be approved by the faculty...