Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interested in rifle practice are invited to come. None need stay away for fear of making a poor score...
...become apparent to many within the last month that Memorial Hall meals, especially luncheons, are slowly becoming worse and worse. It is evident that while the waiting list is so large as it is at present, there need be no fear on the part of the Steward at seeing men leaving, and he can consequently make the food as poor as he wishes without danger of lessening the large number of men who eat in the Hall. It was but to-day that the cold beef given us at luncheon was more like a cold, iced piece of leather than...
...fact that the ordinary chapel service repeated morning after morning does tend to become monotonous. But if we are privileged to listen to addresses by men like Dr. Brooks, Dr. Hale, Dr. Peabody and the other preachers to the university, attendance at morning chapel would never become what we fear it is now considered by many - simply a duty. If we may be permitted to offer advice, we would suggest to the preachers of the university that the example set by Dr. Brooks yesterday morning be followed throughout the year. We feel sure that such a change in the ordinary...
...young men reared on the breezy plains of the great West, but when an attempt is made to force that spirit into schools composed of young men who have in the past shown a wise depreciation of it, some comment and even criticism, ought to be made. We fear that worn-out shells and the opportunity of receiving "odds" will prove inducement enough to some young men to don the blue, but we sincerely trust that if unbecoming proselyting is to be done, it may be done by no more questionable means than by that modern blade of Mohammed...
Yesterday dawned inauspiciously, and when the thousands that looked forward expectantly to the events of the day, awoke, they shook their heads in grave fear on seeing the threatening clouds overhead...