Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story is a device which is beginning to pall on readers of modern fiction. It is too frequently a convenient loop-hole for writers who have not the talent, or else wish to avoid the trouble of describing the closer detail of the surroundings of the actions portrayed. We fear that the writer of this story has not quite successfully covered up this loop-hole-the traces of it are here and there still to be seen. On the whole, the incidents of the story are well narrated...
...true. But whether it would find vent in hazing if "Bloody Monday" were not observed is by no means as clear. The sentiment at Harvard today is very strong against hazing, or anything that partakes of the nature of it, and it is this feeling, and not the fear of punishment, that prevents sophomores to-day from reviving this custom of the past. But in any case the influence resulting from hazing could not be worse than that from "Bloody Monday." The scenes that follow the punches gives the freshman the worst possible impression of the life he is about...
...football season is at hand. Will a regenerated opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot...
...Some fear has been expressed that the paper will not be continued next year. It is certainly to be hoped that this fear is unfounded, and that the "Lampoon" after flourishing for ten years, will continue to be, what it always has been, a characteristic journal of Harvard College...
There is no reason why Harvard should not win the next two games from Yale. The Cambridge boys are the better batters, and don't seem to have much fear of Stagg. - Globe...