Word: fear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cultus of the dead comes from both fear and affection. In China it is the cultus which is universal, and it may be traced back 1900 years before our era. Tablets which record the death of parents always belong to the eldest son, by whom they are worshipped, and these tablets are preserved during four or five generations...
Such a report is plainly apt to do damage; the fear of higher tuition fees would tend to keep many men from coming to the University. They would reason that all safe calculations of expenses must be based, not on the present fees, but on those likely to be established. The fullest growth of the University demands both that there be no increase in fees, and that there be no fear of such increase...
...members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers are men whose opinions are not subject to sudden shift. With them at present so strongly opposed to the increase, no fear can be entertained for the future. Harvard's tuition fees will not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars for many years to come...
...insinuation that fear was a motive for declining to play the game falls flat. The earnest wish of the Harvard management is that the tie shall be played off, and to that end the management has worked and is now working...
...singing is felt by all to be one of the pleasantest features of the closing days of the college year, and most fitting for a club of students. Of course it is conceivable that the applause might become too boisterous, but, in actual fact, there is no call for fear on this account. The University would be grateful to the Regent if he would see that such a blunder should not again be made by any of the policemen...