Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of daily papers, the article has aggravated the feeling among the students that Harvard is most unjustly dealt with by those who have the power to inflict injury if they so desire. The writer of the article in question has adopted the usual method of a coward at heart. Running throughout his pages there is a half-concealed malignity towards our beloved institution that must be apparent not only to every Harvard student who is acquainted with the true state of things existing here, but also to reader who is ignorant of Harvard's methods and customs...
...Columbia University crew at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. on Friday and Saturday of this week. "A Frightful Frost" and "B. B." (Boston Boy) will be presented, besides selections by the glee club of the college, and recitations in costume by Mr. Edward Fales Coward, '83, now famous as an amateur actor. On the castes of the plays are several names well-known in amateur histrionic circles and with the added influence of the patronessess, the entertainment should be a complete social and financial success...
...college that can afford to reject a challenge without loss of dignity, that college is our own; by refusing Yale's demand, we show that we have no apprehension of its being said that "Harvard accepted Yale's challenge because she was afraid of being called a coward if she refused...
...avoid. Traffic, or provision in any way encouraging drunkenness, should be discouraged. But people object, and say that there is no sin in moderate drink-Dr. Crosby has even said that temperance is more manly than total abstinence; the temperate man is the manly man, the total abstainer the coward, and the excessive user the beast. The man who can drink and hold a good deal, is sometimes regarded as a noble example of self-control. But, I tell you, drunkenness in itself depends not on the quantity, not on the quality a man can take, but on the effect...
...fire of conscience. "A young man who allows himself to be ridden over by the roughs of college life for four years is not likely to be able to stand against the bad influences around him in after life. But if he cannot stand against them he is a coward and a poltroon and hardly worth saving. A man's character," he continues, "is formed largely by standing up manfully during his preparatory days. Ten years after leaving college it will be found that the dissipated ones are fast sinking into early graves." After this warning Mr. Cook goes...