Word: crime
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Thus ever long-concealed crime...
...Crime to wash his blood in dews away...
...lift the veil that hangs o'er cringing Crime...
...irremediable harm. It is true that there are evils at Harvard, and it is also true that there are evils in the world outside. Such evils as we have here we had better face boldly; there is nothing gained by keeping them out of sight. But it is a crime to parade them before the public in a sensational and grossly exaggerated form, and the offence is augmented by the fact that the authors are themselves students at Harvard, and as such should be above misrepresenting...
...Library council prudishly, it is said, keep under lock and key, thus depriving us of man's peculiar distinction, - the knowledge of good and evil. Some books may have been put under restriction rather hastily. Walt Whitman was in disgrace, though, to our minds, reading his verses, if a crime, is in itself sufficient penance; and Swinburne was forbidden, while Byron was not. But the list of restricted books has been carefully revised, and the number upon it is now almost ludicrously small. Some may think that they should be permitted to read even these few, and we doubt...