Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consistent should not the college insist that compulsory religious exercises be carried on in the homes of those who, while in college, live at home? Or, perhaps, more strictly, should it not forbid any to enter college but those coming from homes where such observances are enforced? I fear that my interrogatives have run away with me, but I am greatly puzzled as to what answers can be made to my questions...
...have to be forced, in a great many cases, into the student's room which communicated with the balcony, as the occupant of the room might be away. This would consume much valuable time. If the balconies were extended the whole length of the building, there would be less fear of this danger, but such long balconies would be as ungainly as permanent ladders...
...late resolution of the directors of Memorial in taking away our coffee at dinner, perhaps a little discussion of the expense of the hall would not be amiss. The reason the directors gave for taking away our soothing mocha was that it was too expensive. But I fear that they have but an ill appreciation of economy. While we cannot have our cup of coffee, since it would incur the enormous cost of seven cents per week, still some favored gentlemen have the privilege of a private room, which entails the extra expense of gas, keeping the room clean...
...death, in editing his works to strike out here and there a phrase, so as to remove the rhythm and poetic motion of his prose compositions. If that editor of the Yale News who described "Eighty-four's Promenade," should leave such unlimited power to his biographers, we fear that the revised edition of his recent four-column article would suffer severe abridgment. That article is overflowing with poetic sentiments; the rich metaphors of Tom Moore are nowhere in comparison with this brilliant effusion of verbal pyrotechnics. Think, for instance, of a "top gallery, separated from the world below...
...French Senate yesterday M. Waddington declared that the republic was threatened by nobody, and had nothing to fear except the faults it might itself commit...