Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges into rowing with her by declaring that unless within sixty days her challenges are accepted she will claim the championship of America. By all means let her claim it if it will bring her any satisfaction, but if she expects that 'public opinion' will support her claim we fear she is doomed to bitter disappointment...
...colleges. That idea I have labored for often under great discouragement, with the impression that it might be realized with a limited amount of money; whereas, if the university idea be admitted, there is no limit to the amount of money which may be used. But this idea, I fear, is becoming obsolete. I fear it is giving place to what seems to me to be a jumble of miscellaneous, high school, and professional teaching, with no power for the formation of character, that will not even aim at it, that must prevent the possibility of giving honestly a common...
...Princetonian gives this comparison of college papers in the West and East. "In the West there is painful evidence of a fear of passing beyond the bounds, and uttering some sentiment which, really they feel they dare not express. In the literary productions can be seen the lack of general culture. Everything appears in the same stereotyped, orthodox form, indicating a narrow curriculum, which we can almost name in detail. In the personals and locals it is again apparent that, outside of the recitation room the college mind is fed on the most petty details. All this surely declaring...
...there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with but few historical associations, the loss of so famous a building would be irreparable. Misfortune through it be, we fear the Holmes house is doomed, and that after this year we shall never see the only monument in Cambridge which brings back our past vividly to us, and is, as it were, a link to the America of a hundred years...
...would be a superfluous fear to suppose that any undue vanity is likely to be cultivated in the undergraduate body by the publicity to which they are yearly becoming more and more exposed form these visits. Such vanity of course could not be an individual but a collective vanity, and from the nature of things that is not likely to arise. Besides it cannot but be felt, not oppressively, but modestly, that the students themselves are by far the least interesting of the features of this university. Buildings and apparatus on the one hand and the distinguished men who belong...