Word: crude
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Your political ideas are crude. Selfishness is the basis of your government. No country can be well governed where each arrogates to himself the right to a voice in the administration. The time will come when an unselfish policy will prevail; when the people will give up their petty individualities, and leave their destinies in the hands of a Supreme Ruler, who in turn will sacrifice himself, if need be, for his people...
...attack upon Oberlin, whose Review, by the way, is very readable and sensibly written. . . And this brings us to the general subject of our Western exchanges, which we have not room at present to mention severally, but which are in the main free from vulgarity, if at times crude and hasty. . . Returning eastward, we find the Princetonian, which has improved very much, of late, in the way of contributed articles. Its editorial articles have always been well written. We cannot say so much for the poetry, from which its columns are however, mainly free; but the Nassau Lit. publishes verses...