Word: fame
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Whereas God in his infinite wisdom has taken from among us the scholar whose fame is endeared to our hearts by the love we have borne for him as a teacher...
...cant-word to New-Englanders in common, bearing with it a tinge of reproach, and has ultimately come to be used by foreigners in mentioning Americans when they wish to speak disparagingly of us. What word now in use among us will ever attain such a wide-spread fame...
With all of godlike fame...
...Yale. "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" can prove almost anything if it is admitted. After accounting for our refusal in this derogatory manner, it appeals to the traditional fairness that pertains to Harvard from her honorable past, and urges the Freshmen not to give occasion for aspersions on her fame. Such appeals are stale, and the Republican ought to know...
...fact we illustrated our remarks by references to these, so that every one might see we had special cases before us to which our general statements applied. But the Westminster Monthly, a paper far superior to many more pretentious issues from Colleges of larger size and wider fame, essays a defence. While thankful to the editors for their charity towards us, we must deprecate that spirit which leads to a seeming insinuation that the reason for our severe criticism was inflated conceit and sectional exclusiveness. Although we insist upon our former statement that the tone of journalism among Western Colleges...