Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Facts do not justify fear of disaster due to the coinage of standard silver dollars, much less do they justify fear of immediate danger from that cause.- Laughlin's Bi-metallism, ch. xiii and xiv; Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 1, p. 326; North American Review...
...wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent bequests, and we can assert with greater truth than ever that no man need fear, on the score of poverty, to make Harvard his home...
Betting is put in a new light to many of us by Mr. Wendell's article, and without fear of becoming prudish, we can join with him and say that our sports would be conducted more honorably if we could eradicate the betting factor. The "sporting element" here no doubt does our athletics and our moral tone serious evil and it is right that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable...
...heard the same complaint repeated again and again that, though the above be true, the general usefulness of the library is seriously hampered by the fact that all the reading done in the library must be during the day time. It is a lamentable fact that from some petty fear of a fire breaking out and destroying the magnificent collection of books, the college authorities have neglected doing anything toward lighting the library during the night. The argument of fire might have had some force during the days when gas was the sole means of illuminating public buildings, but since...
Amherst has refused to play Williams at foot-ball. The Williams Weekly gives as a reason of Amherst's refusal, her fear of certain defeat...