Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steps of University Hall could perceive hundreds of men, in no way connected with the college, joining in the endless promenade around the yard; and the coarse laughter of these men and their female companions was so out of harmony with the time and place as to destroy half the illusion, and make the whole affair seem like one huge base-ball celebration open to the whole of Cambridge and Boston. We speak very plainly about this; it is an unpleasant subject to handle, but it must be firmly and forcibly demonstrated to the outside world that their uninvited presence...
...true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college discipline must inevitably destroy in us all feelings of sentiment, and reverence. Under the present system we always have a lurking idea that we are worshipping only the Dean and the Faculty. Thus compulsion takes away the one element which can make prayers helpful. Instead of doing good to a certain number, they benefit...
...sparring. Practice of this kind is, as all other gymnasium exercise, merely a recreation for the mind, but I cannot understand why it should not on that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake...
...thought of which means quite as much as the name, has besieged the college dormitories. And here for its labors this objectionable element finds opportunities for the grossest kind of misbehavior, and accepts them most assiduously. What it can put its hands on, it takes; what it can destroy, it destroys; what does not suit its degraded taste it very soon tones down to that taste by its own peculiar processes. And so property is stolen, doors are marred and smeared hallways are - to put it mildly - littered, lights are turned out, et cetera, et cetera. In a word, this...
...English, yer knaw" is a very bad principle to have established in any degree among American students, and the slightest tendencies towards this fearful Anglomania should be nipped at once. Such a mania, among college men in particular, is likely to do no end of evil, tending to destroy all national individuality. If our students cannot be Americans, the time may come when the students of to-day, having become leaders and statesmen, will desire America's return to the mother country...