Word: fear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...perfection. The duet of Martha and Mephistopheles was encored, and was one of the best features of the performance. The Knickerbocker chorus was intended (we have since been informed) to represent a combination of all the late schemes for "Dress Reform." The effect was certainly startling, but we fear that the dress was not entirely understood by the audience. As a whole the burlesque was an "immense" success...
...none of us have read that one of the devices for making labor efficient is that the wages of the laborer should be paid by a person other than the one for whom the labor is done. The laborer is impelled to do his work thoroughly by the fear of dismissal at the hands of his employer; but if the work is done for a person other than the employer, and the latter is indifferent to the manner in which it is performed, who can expect the laborer to take pains with his work? He gets his wages whether...
...lukewarm supporter of the foot-ball interest has any additional excuse for not subscribing, other than the common plea of hard times, the chances are that he will close both his ears and pocket to the entreaties of the canvasser for foot-ball subscriptions. It is this fear of a lack of money support, more than an apprehension that the counsel offered in the Advocate will be ultimately adopted, which induces us to present the other side of the question. Without disputing that the game of foot-ball can be played later into the fall than other sports, and consequently...
...longer wrapped in modesty and fear...
...very often happens that it is only when an opportunity is irretrievably lost that we appreciate its value and importance, and see our own folly in neglecting it. Judging the future by the past, the same will be the case, I fear, with many of us in regard to improving the opportunities offered to us by the College in shape of our Evening Readings. When the readings in Shakespeare were given last year, though at an hour very uncomfortable to many of us, the interest was strong, and the room was crowded almost to suffocation; but now a course...