Word: cruel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Concerning Prince Albert Victor at Cambridge, Labouchere says: "It is cruel to condemn an unfortunate young man to dine at a high table among the dons, whose conversation is of the dullest description...
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...toughest student. Now the fact is that the mass of pupils in any school are not particularly clever nor physically strong. But they, too, have their place to fill in the world; and if they work faithfully at school to fit themselves to fill it, it is unjust and cruel to turn them out into it at the beginning of their career with a sense of defeat because Nature did not endow them as highly as a few of their brethren. The Tribune has called the attention of colleges and teachers to this increasing and fatal error. It only echoes...
...parallel bars, they had an apparatus corresponding to our horizontal bar and also flying rings. However, the Greeks did not strive to excel in these gymnastic tricks as much as in boxing, wrestling and running. The boxing of the ancients, as we know from Virgil, was of a very cruel nature, the principal idea being not to kill a man, for that was prohibited by law, but to come as near to that as possible. They usually wore what, in the present parlance of the prize ring, would be termed "bard" gloves, often with the addition of brass knuckles...
...vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum and propriety. What could have been the cause of those frequent and bitter outbursts of indignation and contempt, which we now re-read as curiosities of journalistic literature, and why he should have been so cruel to us, is a question not easily answered. It may be that, at some remote period, he was a disappointed candidate for a degree, and, on this account, cherishes only bitter feelings against the whole college world. This reason for such caustic satire seemed at first plausible...